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Regino & Conceso Barbarona vs Judge Alejandro Canda

REGINO and CONCESO BARBARONA, complainants, vs. JUDGE ALEJANDRO T. CANDA, Presiding Judge of the Municipal Circuit Trial Court of Liloy-Tampilisan, Zamboanga del Norte, respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-01-1355 | 2001-04-20

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This administrative complaint[1] was filed by Regino and Conceso Barbarona against Judge Alejandro T. Canda of the Municipal Circuit Trial Court of Liloy-Tampilisan, Zamboanga del Norte, for allegedly knowingly rendering an unjust judgment, ignorance of the law, incompetence, grave abuse of discretion, and grave misconduct.

Complainants Regino and Conceso Barbarona are brothers. Conceso and complainants' father, Hermogenes Barbarona, were the defendants in a case for quieting of title and damages, docketed as Civil Case No. 356, in respondent judge's court. Gerardo Magallanes, the plaintiff in that case,...