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BEAGAN VS BORJa Case Digest
BEAGAN VS BORJa Case Digest
FACTS:
✾ About revision of three ballot boxes completed in October 1994, Revision Committee presented its
report to the Court November 3, 1994
✾ Problem arises when the abovementioned ballots were reopened for Xeroxing purposes for the
perusal of the protestee’s counsel
✾ Office and Court Administrator viewed acts of respondents in effecting the reopening of the ballot
boxes and copying tantamount to misconduct in office
✾ Balano (clerk of court) and Borja believed in good faith that they had the authority to allow such.
HELD: