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Sarenas vs. Generoso

JUAN A. SARENAS, contestant--appellee, vs. SEBASTIAN T. GENEROSO, respondent-appellant.

G.R. No. 42685 | 1935-06-29

D E C I S I O N


GODDARD, J:

At the general elections of June 5, 1934, Sebastian T. Generoso and Juan A. Sarenas were candidates for the office of the governor of the Province of Davao. The provincial board of canvassers proclaimed the former governor elect and the latter filed a motion of protest in the Court of First Instance of that province. After due hearing that court rendered judgment proclaiming the contestant Juan A. Sarenas governor-elect of that province with a majority of eighty-two votes. The respondent Sebastian T. Generoso appealed to this court from that judgment.

In rejecting and admitting the questioned ballots in this...