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Pareja, et.al. Vs. Narvasa, et.al.

ENRIQUE PAREJA, CONRADO RAAGAS, JUAN ARACO, ROMAN PAREJA, HILARIO RENDAL and VICENTE REMOTO, petitioners, vs. GREGORIO S. NARVASA, JUDGE OF FIRST INSTANCE OF NEGROS ORIENTAL ET AL., respondents.

G.R. No. L-2008 | 1948-05-17

D E C I S I O N

PERFECTO, J:

Petitioners filed with the Court of First Instance of Negros Oriental a protest contesting the results of the elections for vice- mayor and councilor held in Ayuquitan on November 11, 1947.

The protest is dated on November 25, 1947. In answer dated December 13, 1947, protestees denied the facts alleged as grounds of protest. On February 5, 1948, protestants moved through a written petition that the ballot boxes of the eleven precincts of Ayuquitan be ordered opened and the ballots thereof counted, as evidence in support of the following allegations made in the protest:

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