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Coastal Pacific Trading, Inc. vs. Southern Rolling Mills, Co., Inc., et al.

COASTAL PACIFIC TRADING, INC., petitioner, vs. SOUTHERN ROLLING MILLS, CO., INC. (now known as Visayan Integrated Steel Corporation), FAR EAST BANK & TRUST COMPANY, PHILIPPINE COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL 1 BANK, EQUITABLE BANKING CORPORATION, PRUDENTIAL BANK, BOARD OF TRUSTEES-CONSORTIUM OF BANKS-VISCO, UNITED COCONUT PLANTERS BANK, CITYTRUST BANKING CORPORATION, ASSOCIATED BANK, INSULAR BANK OF ASIA AND AMERICA, INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE BANK, COMMER-CIAL BANK OF MANILA, BANK OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, NATIONAL STEEL CORPORA-TION, THE PROVINCIAL SHERIFF OF BOHOL, and DEPUTY SHERIFF JOVITO DIGAL, 2 respondents.

G.R. No. 118692 | 2006-07-28

FIRST DIVISION

D E C I S I O N


PANGANIBAN, C.J.:

Directors owe loyalty and fidelity to the corporation they serve and to its creditors. When these directors sit on the board as representatives of shareholders who are also major creditors, they cannot be allowed to use their offices to secure undue advantage for those shareholders, in fraud of other creditors who do not have a similar representation in the board of directors.

The Case

Before us is a Petition for Review [3] under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court, assailing the September 27, 1994 Decision [4] and the January 5, 1995 Resolution [5] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-GR CV No. 39385....