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Wilfredo Asutilla vs. Phil. National Bank

WILFREDO ASUTILLA, petitioner-appellee, vs. PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK (Tagbilaran and Tubigon Branches, Bohol), then Acting Chief of Police Virgilio Dizon, Chief of Police Leopoldo R. Bagolor and the Municipal Judge of Tubigon, respondents-appellants.

G.R. No. L-51354 | 1986-01-15

R E S O L U T I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J:

The question of law certified to this instance by the then Court of Appeals revolves around the propriety of the judgment on the pleadings rendered by the former Court of First Instance of Bohol, Branch III (the trial Court).

On March 1, 1971, a Toyota jeep belonging to the Philippine National Bank, Tagbilaran & Tubigon Branches (PNB), and a Volkswagen Kombi, registered in the name of the Nazareno and/or Bohol Poly Clinic and apparently owned by Dr. Domiciano Nazareno and Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Relampagos, collided in Tubigon, Bohol. At the time of the accident, the regular driver of the PNB jeep was...