Whether the courts have the authority to reverse the award of the
board of judges of an oratorical competition.
No rights to the prizes may be asserted by the contestants, because
theirs was merely the privilege to compete for the prize, and that
privilege did not ripen into a demandable right unless and until they
were proclaimed winners of the competition by the appointed
arbiters or referees or judges.
The flaw in his reasoning lies in the assumption that Imperial
suffered some wrong at the hands of the board of judges. If at all,
there was error on the part of one judge, at most. Error and wrong do
not mean the same thing. "Wrong" as used in the aforesaid legal
principle is the deprivation or violation of a right.
Granting that Imperial suffered some loss or injury, yet in law there
are instances of "damnum absque injuria". This is one of them. If
fraud or malice had been proven, it would be a different proposition.
But then her action should be directed against the individual judge or
judges who fraudulently or maliciously injured her. Not against the
other judges. The judiciary has no power to reverse the award of
the board of judges of an oratorical contest.
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