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Fernando Go, et al. vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

FERNANDO GO, GO NAM, PONCIANO CUI VILLAS, FRANCISCO COSUANGCO and SOUTH PACIFIC HARDWARE CO., (a registered partnership), petitioners, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, SPECIAL FOURTH DIVISION, VISAYAN SURETY & INSURANCE CORPORATION AND WESTERN CONSTRUCTION CO., INC., respondents.

G.R. No. L-25393 | 1980-10-30

D E C I S I O N


DE CASTRO, J.:

This petition seeks primarily to question the jurisdiction of the respondent Court of Appeals to render a decision in a case, appealed from the Court of First Instance of Iloilo, where petitioners, who were third-party defendants, were neither appellants nor appellees in the appeal, but were nevertheless held in said decision liable for sums of money to the appellee which was held liable to the appellant, the disposition portion of the respondent court's decision reading as follows:

"WHEREFORE, for the foregoing considerations, the judgment appealed from is reversed and defendants Juanito Hubo and Visayan...