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Insular Bank of Asia & America vs. Intermediate Appellate Court et al.

INSULAR BANK OF ASIA & AMERICA (NOW PHILIPPINE COMMERCIAL INTERNATIONAL BANK), petitioner, vs. HON. INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT THE PHILIPPINE AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE CO., SPS. BEN MENDOZA & JUANITA M. MENDOZA, respondents.

G.R. No. 74834 | 1988-11-17

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

An appeal by certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court by petitioner, the Insular Bank of Asia and America (IBAA) [now the Philippine Commercial International Bank], from the judgment of the public respondent, then the Intermediate Appellate Court, ** in CA-G.R. CV No. 03224.

Briefly, the antecedent facts disclose that sometime in 1976 and 1977 respondent spouses Ben S. Mendoza and Juanita M. Mendoza (the Mendozas, for brevity), obtained two (2) loans from respondent Philippine American Life Insurance Co. (Philam Life) in the total amount of P600,000.00 to finance the construction of their...