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Sweet Lines, Inc. Vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

SWEET LINES, INC., petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, MICAELA B. QUINTOS, FR. JOSE BACATAN, S.J., MARCIANO CABRAS and ANDREA VELOSO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-46340 | 1983-04-28

R E S O L U T I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

For having by-passed a port of call without previous notice, petitioner shipping company and the ship captain were sued for damages by four of its passengers, private respondents herein, before the then Court of First Instance of Cebu, Branch VIII.

Briefly, the facts of record show that private respondents purchased first-class tickets from petitioner at the latter's office in Cebu City. They were to board petitioner's vessel, M/V Sweet Grace, bound for Catbalogan, Western Samar. Instead of departing at the scheduled hour of about midnight on July 8, 1972, the vessel set sail at 3:00 A.M. of...