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DBP and Nilo Galorport vs The CA, Hon. Achilles Melicor, et al

DEVELOPMENT BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES and NILO C. GALORPORT, Petitioners, versus THE COURT OF APPEALS (Former First Division), HON. ACHILLES L. MELICOR (as Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Branch 4, Tagbilaran City), BIBIANA GUREA VDA. DE AZARCON, HEIRS OF INOCENTES AZARCON, namely, PERLA RO?O, INOCENTES AZARCON, JR., LORENZITA CALAMBA, ELSA ANGALOT, MANUELA B. TUASON, DARIETTA AZARCON and DONALITA A. ALONSO (For Herself and as Attorney-In-Fact of her Co-heirs), Respondents.

G.R. No. 147217 | 2004-10-07

D E C I S I O N 

Assailed in this petition for review on certiorari is the Resolution of the Court of Appeals dated September 26, 2000 in CA-G.R. SP No. 60838 dismissing the petition for certiorari filed by the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) and Atty. Nilo Galorport (DBP deputized special sheriff[1]), herein petitioners. The ground for the dismissal is that the certification against forum shopping was signed only by Atty. Demosthenes Demecillo, DBP Branch Manager at Tagbilaran City, the bank's representative. Atty. Galorport, DBP's co-petitioner did not sign the same. 

Also assailed in the instant petition is the...