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Patanao, Ludovico N. vs. Manuel Lopez Enage, et al.

LUDOVICO N. PATANAO, petitioner, vs. HON. MANUEL LOPEZ ENAGE, ANTONIO GONZALES and THE PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY OF AGUSAN, respondents.

G.R. No. L-27709 | 1983-03-28

D E C I S I O N


ABAD SANTOS, J.:

Petition to annul and restrain the service of three warrants of arrest which were issued by the respondent judge.

This Court issued a writ of preliminary injunction after the petitioner had posted a cash bond in the amount of P1,000.00.

When the petition was filed the private respondent, Antonio Gonzales, was Acting Assistant City Treasurer of Butuan and the respondent judge was his boarder. Gonzales signed three complaints against the petitioner: for assault upon an agent of a person in authority, grave slander and challenging to a duel. He did not file the complaints with the City Fiscal because that...