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Northwest Orient Airlines vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, CONCEPCION S. SALONGA, BENJAMIN SALONGA, ANNETE S. PASTORAL, JOY ANN S. PASTORAL (represented by their parents BENJAMIN C. PASTORAL and ERLINDA S. PASTORAL) and MARILOU VELISANO (represented by her parents CARMELITA VELISANO and GABRIEL VELISANO), respondents.

G.R. No. 83033 | 1990-06-08

D E C I S I O N

CRUZ, J.:

As found by the respondent court, the facts of this case are simple.

Three young ladies, Annette Pastoral, Joy Ann Pastoral, and Marilou Velisano, who are among the private respondent herein, were gifted on their graduation with their first trip abroad, to Hongkong, Tokyo and the United States, by their parents. Accompanied by their grandmother, Concepcion Salonga, they flew on April 23, 1978, to Hongkong, where they were to await their plane tickets for the rest of their trip.

On April 26, 1978, Erlinda Pastoral and her uncle, Serafin Salonga, went to the Office of the petitioner's agent, the Inter-Pacific...