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Lourdes Cynthia Makabali etal Vs Court of Appeal et

LOURDES CYNTHIA MAKABALI and GEORGINA MAKABALI, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and BARON TRAVEL CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-46877 | 1988-01-22

D E C I S I O N


FERNAN, J.:

The sole issue in this petition for review is whether or not petitioners are entitled to more than the P5,000.00 moral and exemplary damages, P1,000.00 attorney's fees and costs awarded to them by the Court of Appeals in the light of the circumstances of the case.

Petitioner Georgina Makabali had just graduated from the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines, and as a graduation gift from her father, was given a trip to Hongkong. Since she had never been abroad, her parents insisted that she be accompanied by her sister and co-petitioner Lourdes Cynthia Makabali, a schoolteacher at the Colegio de...