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SSI vs. Castro [DECISION]

SANTIAGO SYJUCO, INC., petitioner, vs. HON. JOSE P. CASTRO, AS PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL JUDICIAL REGION, BRANCH LXXXV, QUEZON CITY, THE CITY SHERIFF OF THE CITY OF MANILA, THE CITY REGISTER OF DEEDS OF THE CITY OF MANILA, EUGENIO LIM, ARAMIS LIM, MARIO LIM, PAULINO LIM, LORENZO LIM, NILA LIM and/or THE PARTNERSHIP OF THE HEIRS OF HUGO LIM and ATTORNEY PATERNO P. CANLAS, respondents.

G.R. No. 70403 | 1989-07-07

D E C I S I O N
 
NARVASA, J.:
 
This case may well serve as a textbook example of how judicial processes, designed to promote the swift and efficient disposition of disputes at law, can be so grossly abused and manipulated as to produce precisely the opposite result; how they can be utilized by parties with small scruples to forestall for an unconscionably long time so essentially simple a matter as making the security given for a just debt answer for its payment.
 
The records of the present proceedings and of two other cases already decided by this Court expose how indeed the routine procedure of...