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Del Monte Corp-USA vs Court of Appeals

DEL MONTE CORPORATION-USA, PAUL E. DERBY, JR., DANIEL COLLINS and LUIS HIDALGO, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, JUDGE BIENVENIDO L. REYES in his capacity as Presiding Judge, RTC-Br. 74, Malabon, Metro Manila, MONTEBUENO MARKETING, INC., LIONG LIONG C. SY and SABROSA FOODS, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. 136154 | 2001-02-07

D E C I S I O N 

BELLOSILLO, J.: 

This Petition for Review on certiorari assails the 17 July 1998 Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals affirming the 11 November 1997 Order[2] of the Regional Trial Court which denied petitioners' Motion to Suspend Proceedings in Civil Case No. 2637-MN. It also questions the appellate court's Resolution[3] of 30 October 1998 which denied petitioners' Motion for Reconsideration. 

On 1 July 1994, in a Distributorship Agreement, petitioner Del Monte Corporation-USA (DMC-USA) appointed private respondent Montebueno Marketing, Inc. (MMI) as the sole and exclusive distributor of its Del Monte products...