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Banque De L'Indochine Et De Suez, etal. Vs R.Torres

BANQUE DE L' INDOCHINE ET DE SUEZ and BANQUE FRANCAIS DU COMMERCE EXTERIEUR, petitioners, vs. HON. RAMON AM. TORRES, Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Cebu City (Branch VII), HON. RICARDO DIAZ, Presiding Judge Regional Trial Court Manila (Branch XXVIII), CEBU SHIPYARD AND ENGINEERING WORKS, INC., SEVEN BROTHERS SHIPPING CORPORATION, YU HUE, JOHNNY YU, THE PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD, BUREAU OF CUSTOMS, PHILIPPINE PORTS AUTHORITY, HON. REGINO T. VERIDIANO II, Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Manila (Branch XXXI), Deputy Sheriff RAMON G. ENRIQUEZ, PN Captain NAPOLEON C. BAYLON, GENSTAR CONTAINER CORPORATION, JOSE SISON, STARSHIP SHIPPING AGENCIES, INC., EXPRESS TRANSPORT CORPORATION, and MARITIME COMPANY OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. Nos. 82405-06 | 1988-11-24

D E C I S I O N


PARAS, J.:

Where a supervening circumstance has rendered the petition moot and academic for all practical purposes, the petition should be dismissed. (Dirampaten v. Alonto, 22 SCRA 1083). The reason for this is:

". . . the well established principle that 'courts exist to decide actual controversies, and do not give opinions on abstract propositions and moot cases' (1 Moran's Rules of Court, 1970 Ed., p. 4; see Garron v. Arca 88 Phil. 490) and that 'it is a rule of almost universal application that courts of justice, constituted to pass upon substantial rights, will not consider questions in which no actual interests are...