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Augusto Gatmaytan vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

AUGUSTO GATMAYTAN, petitioner vs. COURT OF APPEALS, and METROPOLITAN BANK & TRUST COMPANY, respondents.

G.R. No. 123332 | 1997-02-03

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, C.J.:

Involved in this contempt proceeding are no less than nine (9) separate judicial remedies availed of by the same party, all directed principally at impugnation of the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Trial Court over an ejectment suit, in order to cause its indefinite delay if not indeed to bring about its dismissal. The resort to these remedies has prevented the progress of the ejectment suit. More than ten (10) years after its commencement, it has yet to be tried and resolved in the court of origin.

The "Mother Action:"Civil Case No. 32033

On November 3, 1986, Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company...