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Datiles And Company, Et Al. Vs. Melquiades S. Sucaldito

DATILES AND COMPANY, represented by LORETA DATILES and LARRY DATILES, petitioner, vs. Honorable MELQUIADES S. SUCALDITO, Presiding Judge of Branch I, Court of First Instance of Zamboanga del Sur, Honorable MATIAS A. GUIEB, or his Successor-in-Office, Regional Director, Region No. IX, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and JESUS DEYPALUBOS and DANIEL CABELIEZA, respondents.

G.R. No. 42380 | 1990-06-22

D E C I S I O N


PADILLA, J.:

The issue before the Court is whether or not an investigation of a formal protest over a lease grant, by a Regional Director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources may be the subject of a petition for prohibition and/or injunction before the Regional Trial Court, in the light of the following antecedent facts:

Petitioner Datiles and Company has in its favor a fishpond lease agreement 1 whereby the Republic of the Philippines, thru the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, agreed to lease to the company one hundred seventy five hectares, ninety nine areas and fifty-nine hectares (175.9959...