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La Suerte Cigar & Cigarette Factory vs. Central Azucarera Del Danao, Et Al.

LA SUERTE CIGAR & CIGARETTE FACTORY, plaintiff , vs. CENTRAL AZUCARERA DEL DANAO, ET AL., defendants; CENTRAL AZUCARERA DEL DANAO, third- party plaintiff-appellant, vs. TALISAY-SILAY MILLING CO., INC. & J. AMADO ARANETA, third-party defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-23017 | 1968-05-23

D E C I S I O N 


CASTRO, J.: 

This appeal from an order of the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental dismissing a third-party complaint was certified to us by the Court of Appeals. 

The basic question tendered for resolution is whether the third- party complaint states a cause of action. 

A concise narration of the essential antecedent events is contained in the resolution of the Court of Appeals of May 19, 1984, as follows: 

"On January 23, 1962, the La Suerte Cigar and Cigarette Factory filed an action for a sum of money, allegedly representing the value of cigarettes purchased on credit from it, before the...