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Benito Legarda etal vs. Victoriano Savellano, etal.

BENITO LEGARDA, ROSARIO LEGARDA VDA. DE VALDEZ, THE ESTATE OF FILOMENA ROCES VDA. DE LEGARDA, JOSE LEGARDA, PECHATEN CORPORATION, ROLEVAL REALTY, TEROCEL REALTY, CARMEN PRIETO VDA. DE CARO, ANTONIO PRIETO, TERESA PRIETO, MAURO PRIETO, AGUS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, RITA LEGARDA INC., TERESA INVESTMENTS CORPORATION and ALEGAR CORPORATION, petitioners, vs. THE HONORABLE JUDGE VICTORIANO SAVELLANO OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF MANILA, ERNESTO R. VILLAMARIN, FRANCISCO BAUTISTA, JOVITA TRINIDAD, ARTURO G. BAUTISTA, JOSE MAGTIRA, BRIGIDA PE?A, ZOILO DEL ROSARIO, ARSENIO LUMUTAN, CIRILO BAUTISTA, ELADIO DIONISIO and all those numerous persons in whose behalf the suit is brought, defendants.

G.R. No. L-38892 | 1988-02-26

D E C I S I O N


YAP, J.:

This is a petition for certiorari to annul the orders of Judge Victoriano A. Savellano, Presiding Judge of Branch 19, Court of First Instance of Manila, dated December 20, 1973, April 5, 1974 and June 21, 1974, in Civil Case No. 71669, entitled Ernesto Villamarin, et al. vs. Benito Legarda et al. (Villamarin case for brevity) denying petitioners' joint motion for preliminary hearing on the affirmative defense of pendente lite (later res judicata) and setting the case for trial.

The Court required the respondents to answer the petition and issued a restraining order on July 10, 1974, enjoining the enforcement of...