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De Los Angeles vs. Rodriguez [DECISION]

SERVANDO DE LOS ANGELES, contestant-appellant, vs. EULOGIO RODRIGUEZ, contestee-appellee.

G.R. No. L-22257 | 1924-12-03

D E C I S I O N
 
MALCOLM, J.:
 
In the 1922 general elections, Eulogio Rodriguez, Servando de los Angeles, and Miguel R. Cornejo contested for the office of governor of the Province of Rizal. Rodriguez obtained 11,339 votes, Angeles, 10,979 votes (correcting a manifest mathematical computation), and Come jo 4,662 votes. Rodriguez, having in his favor a plurality of 360 votes, was proclaimed as elected to the position of governor of Rizal.
 
Angeles protested the election of Rodriguez by a motion which alleged that numerous errors, frauds, and irregularities had been committed during the election, to his prejudice. After Cornejo...