This is an administrative case filed by Atty. Jose W. Diokno against Mr. Alfonso U. Reyno, Register of Deeds of Cagayan, for partiality and dereliction of duty.

It appears that on June 5, 1947, the complainant presented for registration two deeds of sale covering three parcels of land formerly belonging to Senator Melecio Arranz; that the respondent refused without justifiable cause to register said deeds although they contained all the essential requisites of a registerable document; that on the other hand, he registered an unsigned carbon copy of a document involving the same parcels of land presented for registration apparently at the instance of Senator Arranz.

The acts committed by the respondent are highly improper and irregular. However, I am now informed that the irregular registration of the unsigned copy of the document above mentioned was subsequently corrected; that the two documents presented by the complainant are already duly registered; and that the complainant has no objection to the case being dropped and considered closed.

Wherefore, the respondent is hereby reprimanded and warned to be more careful in the discharge of his duties, otherwise he will be dealt with more severely.

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.


By the President:

(Sgd.)TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary