(1963)
FACTS:
Respondent Executive Secretary Rufino G. Hechanova authorized an importation of tons foreign rice. Such act is being questioned by petitioner Ramon Gonzales, a rice planter and president of the Iloilo Palay and Corn Planters Association, for being violative of a particular statute which proscribes importation of rice and corn by government agencies.
Respondents aver that petitioner as a rice planter does not give him sufficient interest to file herein petition.
ISSUE:
Whether or not petitioner is a real party in interest.
HELD:
Yes. “ x x x, [S] ince the purchase of said commodity will have to be effected with public funds mainly raised by taxation, and as a rice producer and landowner, petitioner must necessarily be a taxpayer, it follows that he has sufficient personality and interest to seek judicial assistance with a view to restraining what he believes to be an attempt to unlawfully disburse said funds.”
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