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Pamintuan vs. Court of Appeals, et al

MARIANO C. PAMINTUAN, petitioner-appellant, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and YU PING KUN CO., INC., respondent-appellees.

G.R. No. L-26339 | 1979-12-14

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

This case is about the recovery of compensatory damages for breach of a contract of sale in addition to liquidated damages.

Mariano C. Pamintuan appealed from the judgment of the Court of Appeals wherein he was ordered to deliver to Yu Ping Kun Co., Inc. certain plastic sheetings and, if he could not do so, to pay the latter P100,559.28 as damages with six percent interest from the date of the filing of the complaint. The facts and the findings of the Court of Appeals are as follows:

In 1960, Pamintuan was the holder of a barter license wherein he was authorized to export to Japan one thousand metric tons of...