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Guillerma De La Merced Vs. Bartolome Revilla 040 Phil 190

GUILLERMA DE LA MERCED, petitioner, vs. BARTOLOME REVILLA, as Judge of the Court of First Instance of Bulacan and PABLO CAMACHO, respondents.

G.R. No. 15796 | 1919-09-23

D E C I S I O N


JOHNSON, J .:

This is an original action praying (a) for a preliminary injunction to prevent the respondent judge from dismissing an election protest and to require him to hear and determine said protest upon its merits, and (b) for the writ of mandamus to require said judge to open certain ballot boxes used at the election on the 3rd day of June, 1919, and to permit the protestant to examine the ballots.

The important question presented is, whether or not, in an election protest, when the protestant alleges that certain ballots have been fraudulently and maliciously marked or excluded from the count, he has a right to...