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George H. Ganaway Vs. J. W. Quillen

GEORGE H. GANAWAY, petitioner, vs. J. W. QUILLEN, Warden of Bilibid Prison, respondent.

G.R. No. L-18619 | 1922-02-20

D E C I S I O N


MALCOLM, J.:

The petitioner in this original action in habeas corpus asks that he be released from Bilibid Prison because of imprisonment for debt in a civil cause growing out of a contract. The return of the Attorney-General alleges as the reason for petitioner's incarceration in Bilibid Prison an order of the Hon. George R. Harvey, judge of First Instance of the city of Manila, issued under authority of Chapter XVII of the Code of Civil Procedure. As standing alone the petition for habeas corpus was fatally defective in its allegations, this court, on its own motion, ordered before it the record of the lower court in...