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Viuda de Garcia vs. Locsin

LEONA PASION VIUDA DE GARCIA, petitioner, vs. DIEGO LOCSIN, Judge of First Instance of Tarlac, FELIX IMPERIAL, Provincial Fiscal of Tarlac, and the ANTI-USURY BOARD, respondents.

G.R. No. 45950 | 1938-06-20

D E C I S I O N


LAUREL, J:

This is a petition for mandamus presented to secure the annulment of a search warrant and two orders of the respondent judge, and the restoration of certain documents alleged to have been illegally seized by an agent of the Anti-Usury Board.

It appears that on November 10, 1934, Mariano G. Almeda, an agent of the Anti-Usury Board, obtained from the justice of the peace of Tarlac, Tarlac, a search warrant (Exhibit B) commanding any officer of the law to search the person, house or store of the petitioner at Victoria, Tarlac, for "certain books, lists, chits, receipts, documents and other papers relating to her...