Victronic's Corporation

Republic of the Philippines

SUPREME COURT

Manila

THIRD DIVISION

G.R. No. 104019 January 25, 1993

VICTRONICS COMPUTERS, INC., petitioner,

vs. REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, BRANCH 63, MAKATI, presided by JUDGE JULIO R. LOGARTA, PANORAMA ENTERPRISES, INC., PASIG TOURIST DEVELOPMENT CORP., GALACTIC SPACE DEVELOPMENT CORP., MALATE TOURIST DEVELOPMENT CORP., CALOOCAN TOURIST DEVELOPMENT CORP., BARRIENTOS & CO., INC., KARL C. VELHAGEN and ARCHIMEDES R. KING, who operate business under the names VICTORIA COURT, GMT CONSOLIDATED COMPANY and VICTORIA GROUP OF COMPANIES, respondents.

Paras & Reynes Law Office for petitioner.

Ernest S. Ang for respondents.

DAVIDE, JR., J.:

This is a petition for review on certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court. Petitioner seeks to set aside, for being inconsistent with law and jurisprudence, the 22 January 1992 Order of respondent Branch 63 of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Makati, Metro Manila which, among others, denied a motion for reconsideration of its earlier dismissal, on the ground of lis pendens, of a collection suit docketed as Civil Case No. 91-2069 filed against private respondents Karl C. Velhagen and Archimedes R. King, alleged operators of a business under the names VICTORIA COURT, GMT CONSOLIDATED COMPANY and VICTORIA GROUP OF COMPANIES. Petitioner further asks this Court, in the exercise of its supervisory power over lower courts, to direct the respondent Court to issue alias summonses to the respondent corporations which were impleaded as additional defendants in the amended complaint filed in said Civil Case No. 91-2069, and to order the consolidation of this case in Branch 63 with Civil Case No. 91-2192 pending before Branch 150 of the said court.

The records disclose the following antecedents:

Petitioner Victronics Computers, Inc., a domestic corporation engaged in the sale of computer systems and peripherals, submitted a quotation for office systems to service the networking requirements of various...