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Phil Commercial & Industrial Bank vs Rodolfo Ortiz

PHILIPPINE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL BANK, petitioner, vs. HON. RODOLFO ORTIZ, ROGELIO MARAVILES, and QUEZON CITY SHERIFF, respondents.

G.R. No. L-49223 | 1987-05-29

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

The case at bar, described by petitioner as simple both as to the facts involved and as to the issue, 1 principally relates to the well known rule that service of notices, pleadings, motions and other papers, to be valid and efficacious, shall be made on the party's attorney of record and not on the party himself, unless the court shall otherwise direct. 2

The party directly affected by the rule is the petitioner, Philippine Commercial and Industrial Bank, hereafter simply referred to as PCIB, defendant in Civil Case No. Q-23275 of the Court of First Instance of Quezon City. The action was instituted by one...