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Caba?ero vs. Torres

SIMEON CABA?ERO and LUIS MANGORNONG, petitioners, vs. RAMON TORRES, , "THE HAWAIIAN Sugar PLANTERS' ASSOCIATION"respondents.

G.R. No. 43352 | 1935-06-03

D E C I S I O N


ABAD SANTOS, J:

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition whereby the petitioners seek to have declared illegal, null and void the license to recruit laborers issued to the respondent Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, and to prohibit the other respondents from renewing the same or issuing any new license.

The facts which gave rise to these proceedings may be briefly stated as follows: The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association had, for many years, been licensed by the Government to recruit, contract and embark laborers for the Territory of Hawaii. On February 25, 1935 the association mad an application for the...