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Violeta T. Teologo Vs. Civil Service Commission, Et Al.

VIOLETA T. TEOLOGO, petitioner, vs. THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, DR. PRUDENCIO J. ORTIZ, DR. JOSE M. TUPAZ, JR., and MRS. RUBY G. GELVEZON, respondents.

G.R. No. 92103 | 1990-11-08

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The petitioner questions the appointment of private respondent Ruby G. Gelvezon as Chief Nurse I of the Representative Pedro Trono Memorial Hospital in Guimbal, Iloilo, as approved by the Civil Service Commission in its Resolution No. 89-321 dated May 5, 1989. She claims she has a preferential right to be appointed to the said position, which she had held in an acting capacity for more than a year. She stresses that she is next-in-rank and not disqualified; Gelvezon, on the other hand, is not eligible.

At the time of the challenged appointment, Gelvezon was no longer in the service, having retired as Senior...