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Leonor Dangan-Corral Vs. Commission on Elections and Ernesto Enero Fernandez

LEONOR DANGAN-CORRAL, Petitioner, versus COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and ERNESTO ENERO FERNANDEZ, Respondents

G.R. No. 190156 | 2010-02-12

D E C I S I O N


DEL CASTILLO, J.:

Does the allowance of execution pending appeal of a Decision of a Regional Trial Court (RTC) in an election protest case constitute grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction when the said RTC Decision does not contain the specific matters required by the Rules of Procedure in Election Contests? This is the question directly involved in the present case.

In the present Petition for Certiorari, petitioner assails the December 17, 2008 and November 10, 2009 Resolutions of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Comelec Special Relief Case, SPR No. 51-2008 dismissing...