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Clodualdo Meneses vs. Estanislao Luat 120 Phil. 1252

CLODUALDO MENESES, EUFEMIO TRINIDAD, JOSE CALARA, NARCISO SIGUA and NICOLAS LORENZO plaintiffs-appellants, vs. ESTANISLAO LUAT and ABELARDO, G. TINIO, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-18116 | 1964-11-28

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

This is an appeal by plaintiffs from the order of the Court of First Instance of Pampanga in its civil case No. 1853, dismissing their complaint for damages upon motion to dismiss filed by defendants. 

The complaint recites: that defendant Abelardo G. Tinio was the owner of a cargo truck with trailer which, on February 14, 1960, while being driven by defendant Estanislao Luat in Apalit, Pampanga, hit a horse-drawn rig (carretela) owned and driven by plaintiff Nicolas Lorenzo, the other plaintiffs being then his passengers: that the accident was caused by the negligence of truck driver Luat;...