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Azucena Go, et al. Vs. CA, et al.

AZUCENA GO and REGENA GLORIA SIONG, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and STAR GROUP RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. 128954 | 1998-10-08

D E C I S I O N


PANGANIBAN, J.:

Where the trial court abuses its discretion by indefinitely suspending summary proceedings involving ejectment cases, a petition for certiorari may be entertained by the proper court to correct the blunder. In the interest of justice and in view of the procedural void on the subject, an appeal may be treated as a petition for certiorari for this purpose and only in this instance, pro hac vice.

The Case

The petition for review on certiorari before us seeks to set aside and reverse the consolidated Decision of the Court of Appeals1 [Penned by J. Alicia Austria-Martinez, with the concurrence of JJ. Gloria...