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Placido O. Urbanes, Jr. Vs. Court Of Appeals, Et Al.

PLACIDO O. URBANES, JR., petitioner, vs. THE HON. COURT OF APPEALS and NATIONAL POWER CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. 112884 | 1994-08-30

R E S O L U T I O N


VITUG, J.:

This petition for review on certiorari, assails the decision of the Court of Appeals in CA G.R. CV No. 34524 for, among other things, having been penned by Justice Eduardo G. Montenegro who, it is averred, should have disqualified himself from sitting and participating in said case pursuant to Rule 137 of the Rules of Court. Justice Montenegro, prior to his appointment to the Court of Appeals, was the Acting Solicitor General who, in that capacity, had represented herein respondent National Power Corporation ("NPC") in the case.

Civil Case No. 47216 was filed, on 18 February 1986, by petitioner Placido...