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ROSE PACKING COMPANY, INC. vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS, ET AL.

G.R. No. L-33084


PARAS, J.

FACTS
A letter request by petitioner for the reactivation of its overdraft line and a letter of credit-trust was
approved by the respondent bank, Philippine Commercial and Industrial Bank (PCIB). It also
approved an application of loan on fully secured real estate and chattel mortgage and on the
further condition that respondent PCIB appoint as it did appoint its executive vice-president
Roberto S. Benedicto as its representative in petitioner's board of directors. A P2.6 million loan
application of petitioner was approved with certain conditions by the National Investment &
Development Corporation (NIDC), the wholly owned investment subsidiary of the Philippine
National Bank. A total of P200,000.00 was released by the NIDC to the petitioner. Thereafter, the
NIDC refused to make further releases on the approved loan of petitioner. A complaint was filed by
PCIB against petitioner and Rene Knecht, its president for the collection of petitioner's indebtedness
to respondent bank. PCIB gave petitioner notice that it would cause the real estate mortgage to be
foreclosed at an auction sale thus, respondent Sheriff served notice of sheriffs sale.

ISSUE
Whether or not the petitioner corporation was in default, justifying the foreclosure of mortgaged
property

HELD
No. The loans of petitioner corporation from respondent bank were supposed to become due only
at the time it receives from the NIDC and PDCP the proceeds of the approved financing scheme. As
it is, the conditions did not happen. The efficacy or obligatory force of a conditional obligation is
subordinated to the happening of a future and uncertain event so that if the suspensive condition
does not take place  the parties would stand as if the conditional obligation had never existed. For
an obligation to become due, there must generally be a demand. Default generally begins from the
moment the creditor demand the performance of the obligation. Without such demand, judicial or
extrajudicial, the effects of default will not arise.

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