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Suria vs. Juntereal, et al

EUGENIO SURIA, petitioner, vs. HON. JUDGE FILEMON O. JUNTERFEAL, Presiding Judge of Branch V, Court of First Instance of Quezon, ROQUE CALVARIO, and ATTY. GILBERT CAMALIGAN, respondents.

G.R. No. L-38695 | 1978-07-01

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, Acting, C.J:

A trial judge conscious of the need to assure the smooth flow of what usually is an overcrowded docket is expected to look with disfavor on pleas for postponements, especially so if based on inability of counsel for one of 'the parties to be present. If thereafter, upon the case being reset, counsel fails once again to attend a hearing or conference, it is understandable if his patience is sorely tried. Respondent Judge 1 in this certiorari proceeding must have been laboring under such a state of mind when he declared petitioner Eugenio Suria in contempt of court and ordered his arrest. 2 It is the...