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Granger Associates Vs. Microwave Systems Inc.

GRANGER ASSOCIATES, petitioner, vs. MICROWAVE SYSTEMS INC., LORETO F. STEWARD, MENARDO R. JIMENEZ and JOHN PALMER, respondents.

G.R. No. 79986 | 1990-09-14

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The Court is once again asked to interpret the phrase "doing business in the Philippines" as applied to an unlicensed foreign corporation that has filed a complaint against a domestic corporation.

The foreign corporation is Granger Associates, the herein petitioner, which was organized in the United States and has no license to do business in this country. The domestic corporation is Microwave Systems, Inc., one of the herein private respondents, which has been sued for recovery of a sum equivalent to US$900,633.30 allegedly due from it to the petitioner.

The claim arose from a series of agreements concluded...