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Philippine Pryce Assurance Corporation vs. Court of Appeals, 230 SCRA 164

PHILIPPINE PRYCE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS, (Fourteenth Division) and GEGROCO, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. 107062 | 1994-02-21

SECOND DIVISION
D E C I S I O N 
 
 
NOCON, J.: 
 
Two purely technical, yet mandatory, rules of procedure frustrated petitioner's bid to get a favorable decision from the Regional Trial Court and then again in the Court of Appeals. 1 These are non-appearance during the pre-trial despite due notice, and non-payment of docket fees upon filing of its third-party complaint. Just how strict should these rules be applied is a crucial issue in this present dispute. 
 
Petitioner, Interworld Assurance Corporation (the company now carries the corporate name Philippine Pryce Assurance Corporation), was the butt of the...