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Natalia Fernando vs. Anastacio Franco

NATALIA FERNANDO, PEDRO ANDRES, PONCIANO ANDRES, ADOLFO ANDRES, FLAVIANA ANDRES, TELESFORO ANDRES and ESTEBAN ANDRES, JR., plaintiffs-appellees, vs. ANASTACIO FRANCO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-27786 | 1971-01-30

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

It is beyond dispute that a judgment of conviction in the case of a driver accused of homicide through reckless imprudence, there being no collusion between the accused and the offended party, conclusively binds the employer to answer subsidiarily for the damages awarded. So it has been since the leading case of Martinez v. Barredo. 1 Necessarily then, in this appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Ilocos Norte holding defendant-appellant Anastacio Franco, as employer, liable for the indemnity awarded, the plaintiffs-appellees, 2 the heirs of the deceased who met his death as a result of...