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2002-08-01 |
QUISUMBING, J. |
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| warrant intervention, two requisites must concur: (a) the movant has a legal interest in the matter in litigation,[17] and (b) intervention must not unduly delay or prejudice the adjudication of the rights of the parties[18] nor should the claim of the intervenor be capable of being properly decided in a separate proceeding.[19] The interest, which entitles a person to intervene in a suit, must involve the matter in litigation and of such direct and immediate character that the intervenor will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment.[20] Civil Case No. 6695 was an action for permanent injunction and damages. As a stranger to the case, private respondent had neither legal interest in a permanent injunction nor an interest on the damages to be imposed, if any, in Civil Case No. 6695. To allow him to intervene would have unnecessarily complicated and prolonged the case. We agree with the Court of Appeals that to make the injunctive writ applicable against private respondent, petitioner should have impleaded the latter as an additional defendant in Civil Case No. 6695. Petitioner's insistence that it had rested its case and hence was too late | |||||