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RP vs CA and Traders Royal Bank

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and TRADERS ROYAL BANK, respondents.

G.R. No. 129846 | 2000-01-18

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This is a petition for certiorari seeking to set aside the resolution,1 [Per Justice Romeo A. Brawner and concurred in by Justices Emeterio C. Cui and Lourdes K. Tayao-Jaguros.] dated March 17, 1997, of the Court of Appeals dismissing petitioner's appeal from an order of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 19, Manila, which dismissed petitioner's complaint. The appellate court threw out petitioner's appeal on the ground that its notice of appeal had been filed out of time. Petitioner urges a relaxation of the rules in applying the period for filing appeals. But even its appeal to this Court from the resolution...