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Phil. Nat'l Railways vs. Nat'l Labor Rel. Comm etal

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS, petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, LABOR ARBITER CEFERINA DIOSANA, and RODOLFO CALDO, respondents.

G.R. No. 81231 | 1989-09-19

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

Article 1155 of the Civil Code provides that the "prescription of actions is interrupted" inter alia, "when there is any written acknowledgment of the debt by the debtor." This simply means that the period of prescription, when interrupted by such a written acknowledgment, begins to run a new; and whatever time of limitation might have already elapsed from the accrual of the cause of action is thereby negated and rendered inefficacious. It does not mean that prescription will not run any more. But this was how the public respondents construed and applied the cited provision in the case at bar. They thus...