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Baliwag Transit, Inc., vs. Court of Appeals

BALIWAG TRANSIT, INC. petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and SPS. SOTERO CAILIPAN, JR. and ZENAIDA LOPEZ and GEORGE L. CAILIPAN, respondents.

G.R. No. 80447 | 1989-01-31

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

On 10 April 1985 a Complaint for damages arising from breach of contract of carriage was filed by private respondents, the Spouses Sotero Cailipan, Jr. and Zenaida Lopez, and their son George, of legal age, against petitioner Baliwag Transit (Baliwag, for brevity). The Complaint alleged that George, who was a paying passenger on a Baliwag bus on 17 December 1984, suffered multiple serious physical injuries when he was thrown off said bus driven in a careless and negligent manner by Leonardo Cruz, the authorized bus driver, along Barangay Patubig, Marilao, Bulacan. As a result, he was confined in the...