BIENVENIDO P. BUAN, PETITIONER, VS. NICOLAS Y. FELICIANO AND HON. ARTURO B. SANTOS, JUDGE OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF TARLAC, BRANCH II, RESPONDENTS.

A certiorari and prohibition proceeding was filed by petitioner
Bienvenido P. Buan on May 10, 1968, the respondents being Nicolas Y. Feliciano
and the Honorable Arturo B. Santos, Judge of the Court of First Instance of
Tarlac, Branch II.  It was sought in such petition to declare
that respondent Judge was devoid of jurisdiction to entertain or act on a counter-protest and motion
to dismiss filed by respondent Feliciano and to issue a writ of certiorari annulling the order of respondent
Judge of February 19, 1968 ordering the
striking out of the answer of respondent Feliciano but refusing to
dismiss his counter-protest on the ground of the liberality of the law as well as a writ of prohibition commanding respondent Judge to desist
from further enter­taining or acting on such counter-protest.  This Court, in a resolution of May 14, 1968, required respondents to
answer and at the same time issued a writ of preliminary injunction.  Subsequently, on June 11, 1968, the answer was filed by
respondents sustaining the jurisdiction of the Honorable Arturo B. Santos and
seeking the dismissal of this petition for certiorari and prohibition.

As early as July 24,
1968, there was a motion to postpone filed by counsel for
petitioner on the ground that respondent Nicolas Y. Feliciano died on July
10, 1968.  Subsequently, on October 16, 1970, it was stated in a
resolution of this Court that information was received by it to the effect that
petitioner Bienvenido P. Buan had likewise died in the meanwhile and requiring
counsel to show cause, on the assumption that such information is true, why
this case should not be dismissed as moot. 
Then came, on November 23, 1970, a motion to dismiss filed by counsel
for petitioner manifesting that since petitioner and respondent Nicolas Y. Feliciano are both deceased, this proceeding
should be dismissed as moot.

WHEREFORE, this petition for certiorari and
prohibition is hereby dismissed, having become moot.  The writ of preliminary injunction issued on May 14,
1968 is hereby
declared to be of no further force and effect. 
Without pro­nouncement as to costs.

Reyes, J.B.L., Acting C.J., Makalintal, Zaldivar, Castro,
Teehankee, Barredo, Villamor, and
Makasiar, JJ., concur.

Concepcion, C.J., and
Dizon, J., are on official leave.