VILLASIS VS CA

FACTS: An action for quieting of title with recover of possession and damages
by the private respondent was granted by CFI. Petitioner went to the CA,
they were given 45 days to submit their brief. However, they have failed to
file their brief because of their counsels utter inaction and gross indifference
and neglect since receipt of due notice to file it. They have change their
counsel but the period of filing brief had already expired.

ISSUE: WON Rule 12.01 - A lawyer shall not appear for trial unless he has
adequately prepared himself on the law and the facts of his case, the
evidence he will adduce and the order of its preferences. He should also be
ready with the original documents for comparison with the copies, have been
violated.

RULING: The appellate court gave them all the time and opportunity to duly
prosecute their appeal by filing their brief in the interval to no avail. The
appellate court committed no error therefore in dismissing the appeal.
Petitioners-appellants have shown no valid and justifiable reason for their
inexplicable failure to file their brief and have only themselves to blame for
their counsel's utter inaction and grow indifference and neglect in not having
filed their brief for a year since receipt of due notice to file the same.