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Equitable PCI Bank, Formerly Equitable Banking Corp vs Rosita Ku

EQUITABLE PCI BANK, formerly EQUITABLE BANKING CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. ROSITA KU, respondent.

G.R. No. 142950 | 2001-03-26

D E C I S I O N

KAPUNAN, J.:

Can a person be evicted by virtue of a decision rendered in an ejectment case where she was not joined as a party? This was the issue that confronted the Court of Appeals, which resolved the issue in the negative. To hold the contrary, it said, would violate due process. Given the circumstances of the present case, petitioner Equitable PCI Bank begs to differ. Hence, this petition.

On February 4, 1982, respondent Rosita Ku, as treasurer of Noddy Dairy Products, Inc., and Ku Giok Heng, as Vice-President/General Manager of the same corporation, mortgaged the subject property to the Equitable Banking...