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PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

SECOND DIVISION

[G.R. No. L-46175. June 29, 1984.]

AGUEDO F. AGBAYANI, as Provincial Governor of Pangasinan, the PROVINCIAL COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE and MANUEL F. MANUEL, Chairman, Petitioners, v. JUDGE ROMEO D. MAGAT of the Court of First Instance of Pangasinan, Branch XI and VICTORIANO M. SEVILLEJA, Respondents.

Antonio Coronel, for Petitioners.

Simplicio M. Sevilleja for Respondents.


SYLLABUS


1. REMEDIAL LAW; SPECIAL CIVIL ACTIONS; CERTIORARI; GRAVE ABUSE OF DISCRETION; ABSENCE THEREOF IN CASE AT BAR. — Sevilleja contends that his acquittal by the Sandiganbayan on the ground of reasonable doubt of attempted estafa rendered this petition for certiorari and prohibition and the administrative case against him moot and academic because the character in the Sandiganbayan was predicated on the same averments alleged in the administrative case. After a conscientious study of the record, we hold that Governor Agbayani and Chairman Manuel of the Provincial Complaints Committee have no cause of action for certiorari and prohibition. Judge Magat acted within his jurisdiction and did not act with grave abuse of discretion in issuing the restraining order of May 17, 1977 which ordered the reinstatement of Sevilleja against whom the governor had filed administrative complaint and whom the latter suspended for a period of ninety days.


D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:


This case is about the suspension by Governor Aguedo F. Agbayani of Victoriano M. Sevilleja as provincial engineer of Pangasinan.

On October 1, 1976, Governor Agbayani filed with the Provincial Complaints Committee a complaint against Sevilleja for alleged disobedience, grave misconduct, dishonesty and grave insubordination. Three days later, the governor suspended Sevilleja for a period of ninety days.

On October 6, 1976, Sevilleja filed an action for certiorari, prohibition and mandamus wherein he assailed the order of suspension. The petition was dismissed in this Court’s resolution of May 17, 1977 in L-44735, Sevilleja v. Agbayani.

On November 17, 1976, Sevilleja filed in the Court of First Instance of Pangasinan (Civil Case No. 15284) a petition for prohibition against the Provincial Complaints Committee and its chairman, Manuel F. Manuel, to restrain the administrative investigation. Governor Agbayani was later included as Respondent.

On May 17, 1977, Judge Romeo D. Magat issued a preliminary mandatory injunction ordering the reinstatement of Sevilleja. That order was assailed by Governor Agbayani in the herein certiorari and prohibition case which he and Manuel’s committee filed on May 24, 1977.

After the submission of comments, this Court in its resolution of November 27, 1978 dismissed the petition for lack of interest of Agbayani and Manuel and lifted its restraining order enjoining the enforcement of Judge Magat’s order of May 17, 1977 for Sevilleja’s reinstatement.

However, upon motion for reconsideration by Agbayani and Manuel, said resolution was reconsidered and the case was set for oral argument. The parties were granted sixty days to submit a compromise agreement. No compromise was reached.

On August 26, 1981, the Sandiganbayan rendered a decision acquitting on the ground of reasonable doubt Sevilleja and one Leonardo Abule of attempted estafa. Sevilleja contends that said acquittal rendered this case and the administrative case moot and academic because the charge in the Sandiganbayan was predicated on the same averments alleged in the administrative case which involves Sevilleja’s alleged purchase of 24 bailey panels of inferior quality for use in the renovation of the Braganza bridge.

After a conscientious study of the record, we hold that Governor Agbayani and Manuel have no cause of action for certiorari and prohibition. Judge Magat acted within his jurisdiction and did not act with grave abuse of discretion in issuing order of preliminary mandatory injunction of May 17, 1977. (As amended by Resolution of August 20, 1984).

WHEREFORE, the petition is dismissed. The restraining order of May 27, 1977 is lifted. Costs against the petitioners.

SO ORDERED.

Concepcion, Jr., Escolin, Gutierrez, Jr. and Cuevas, JJ., concur.

Makasiar, Guerrero and Abad Santos, JJ., took no part.

Gutierrez, Jr., J., was designated to sit in the Second Division.




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