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Constancio Joaquin Vs. Godofredo B. Herrera 037 Phil 705

CONSTANCIO JOAQUIN, plaintiff-appellant, vs. GODOFREDO B. HERRERA, as municipal president of Caloocan, Rizal, LOPE K. SANTOS as provincial governor, and THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF RIZAL and JOSE JAVIER, interver, defendants. SILVINO LIM and JACINTO LIMJAP, applicants for intervention, appellants.

G.R. No. L-11217 | 1918-02-28

D E C I S I O N


STREET, J .:

This controversy is concerned with the rival claims of Constancio Joaquin and Jose Javier to the concession for running two cockpits situated just beyond the corporate limits of the city of Manila, in the barrios of La Loma and Maypajo, in the municipality of Caloocan, Province of Rizal. It appears that in March, 1913, when the original complaint in this cause was filed, the plaintiff Joaquin owned or had obtained control of the two cockpits in question; and he had been seeking for a month or more to procure a license from the municipal authorities authorizing him to open these cockpits to the public.

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