Pablo Mayor v. Honorable Intermediate Appellate Court

Summary

This Supreme Court case resolved a procedural law dispute regarding the proper computation of time periods for filing petitions for review. Pablo Mayor was sued for ejectment and lost at the RTC level. When he appealed to the Intermediate Appellate Court, it initially declared his petition abandoned, then ruled it was filed one day late. The core issue was when the 15-day extension period begins when a motion for reconsideration is filed on the last day to appeal. The Supreme Court applied the Lloren rule, holding that when a motion for reconsideration is filed on the 15th day, that day is excluded, giving the movant one additional day to perfect appeal. The extension period starts after this additional day, not from the day the denial was received. This established important precedent for computing appeal periods in Philippine procedural law.