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Philippine Supreme Court Jurisprudence > Year 1967 > February 1967 Decisions > G.R. Nos. L-22785, L-22826, L-22937 February 10, 1967 - CHAMBER OF TAXICAB SERVICES, ET AL. v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, ET AL.:




PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

EN BANC

[G.R. Nos. L-22785, L-22826, L-22937. February 10, 1967.]

CHAMBER OF TAXICAB SERVICES, INC., ET AL., Petitioners, v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, ET AL., Respondents.

Augusto Kalaw and Antonio Barredo, for Petitioners.

Tañada, Teehankee & Carreon for respondent Jose M. Silva.

Almario T. Amador for respondent Florentina Baluyot.

Jorge a. Dolorfino for respondent Honesto Coronel.

Ricardo Mag. Bernaldo for respondents R. Bernardo, M. Mendoza, V. Mulingtapang, etc.

Jose C. Zulueta, Nabayan, Bumanglag, Fernando M. Mangubat, Atienza & Atienza, Lino B. Alzate, Samuel Bautista, Rolando B. Leonor, Cesar C. Paralejo and R. C. Paralejo, Gerardo M. Alfonso, Emiliano S. Samson and R. Balderrama-Samson, Aristorenas, Relova & Enriquez, Mario D. Camacho, Manuel Paredes, Pascual G. Mier, Jaime Miranda, Celso A. Fernandez, Leonardo Bautista, Jr., Levy V. Mendoza, Romulo A. Bernabe, Pacifico M. Lontok and Honorio Lapid, for the respondents.


SYLLABUS


1. CERTIORARI; ACTION BECOMES MOOT AND ACADEMIC. — Facts: The Public Service Commission granted provisional permits to operate taxicab units, principally in the City of Manila, to one-hundred twenty-five applicants and to the oppositor-counter-applicants. Said order was assailed by certiorari before this Court. Subsequently, however, the Public Service Commission rendered a decision granting permanent certificates of public convenience to respondents, either confirming or increasing the number of units granted to each in the previous order. HELD: The present action for certiorari is now moot and academic.


R E S O L U T I O N


DIZON, J.:


This is an original action for certiorari on the ground of lack of jurisdiction and/or grave abuse of discretion filed against the Public Service Commission and other parties. The order of the Commission complained of was issued on March 5, 1964 and granted to each of one-hundred twenty-five applicants and oppositor counter- applicants provisional permits to operate taxicab units principally in the City of Manila totalling in all 1,000 units.

On September 25, 1964 Jose M. Silva, one of the respondents, filed a motion to dismiss the present case upon the ground that on September 4 of the same year, the respondent Commission had rendered its decision granting permanent certificates of public convenience to him and his herein co-respondents, either confirming or increasing the number of units granted to each of them under its order of March 5, 1964 mentioned in the preceding paragraph, this obviously rendering the present action for certiorari moot and of no practical importance. A copy of the said decision rendered by the respondent Commission was attached to the motion to dismiss.

Required to answer the motion aforesaid, Petitioners, on October 26, 1964, made of record that they interpose no objection to the dismissal of the following cases:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library

Public Service Commission Applicant (Respondent)

1. Case No. 63-4264 Arturo Miranda

2. Case No. 62-4704 Ambrosio R. Ona

3. Case No. 62-6073 Iluminada Gonzales

4. Case No. 63-6002 Milagros Macasaet

5. Case No. 63-2733 Jose M. Silva

6. Case No. 63-5224 Jose M. Silva

7. Case No. 63-6010 Romeo Silva

8. Case No. 62-7102 Servillano Manguiat

9. Case No. 63-6017 Benedicto Katigbak

As a result, on January 31, 1966 We issued a resolution dismissing the present action in relation to the cases enumerated above.

Considering, however, that the order complained of and whose annulment is sought in the present action for certiorari granted a mere provisional permit to the respondents, and the same was necessarily deemed superseded by the final decision rendered by the Public Service Commission on September 4, 1964, We are of the opinion that the present case has, as a whole, become academic.

Wherefore, the present petition is dismissed, without costs.

Concepcion, C.J., Reyes, J. B. L., Regala, Makalintal, Bengzon, J. P., Zaldivar, Sanchez and Ruiz Castro, JJ., concur.




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