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Nimfa Albos Vs. Eugenio Alaba

NIMFA ALBOS, complainant, vs. JUDGE EUGENIO ALABA, respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-91517 | 1994-03-11

D E C I S I O N


VITUG, J.:

On 04 February 1991, complainant Nimfa Albos filed with the Office of the Court Administrator a sworn letter-complaint, charging respondent Judge Eugenio Alaba with misconduct, oppression and gross inefficiency.

The antecedents: On 27 August 1990, Nimfa Albos filed with the Municipal Trial Court ("MTC") of Tanauan, Leyte, a complaint for grave oral defamation against one Rebecca Songalia. Sometime in October, 1990, the complainant, accompanied by her mother, went to the MTC to verify the status of the case. The two were told by the Clerk of Court that the complaint was "not yet signed" by the respondent...