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E. W. Mcdaniel Vs. Hon. Galicano Apacible, Et Al., 042 Phil 749

E. W. McDANIEL, petitioner, vs. Honorable GALICANO APACIBLE, Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the Philippine Islands, and JUAN CUISIA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-17597 | 1922-02-07

EN BANC

D E C I S I O N


JOHNSON, J.:

This is an original action commenced in the Supreme Court for the writ of prohibition. Its purpose is to prohibit the respondent Honorable Galicano Apacible, as Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, from granting a lease of a parcel of petroleum land located in the municipality of San Narciso, of the Province of Tayabas, Philippine Islands, which parcel of land is particularly described in paragraph 6 of the petition. To the petition the respondent Galicano Apacible demurred. The respondent Juan Cuisia neither demurred nor answered.

The facts upon which the petition is based are admitted and...