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Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company vs CA & Alfonso Roxas Chua

METROPOLITAN BANK & TRUST COMPANY, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and ALFONSO ROXAS CHUA, respondents.

G.R. No. 110147 | 2001-04-17

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J.:

If an order leaves something to be done by the trial court with respect to the merits of the case, it is interlocutory; if it does not, it is final. Once determined to be final, the order may be the subject of an appeal, as in the present case.

The Case

Filed before this Court is a Petition for Review under rule 45 of the Rules of Court, challenging the December 22, 1992 Decision[1] of the Court of appeals (CA) in CA-GR SP No. 28679. The dispositive portion of the assailed Decision reads as follows:

"WHEREFORE, the petition for certiorari is DISMISSED, with costs against private respondent."[2]

The CA...