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Kilusang Mayo Uno Labor Center vs. Jesus B. Garcia, Jr.

KILUSANG MAYO UNO LABOR CENTER, petitioner, vs. HON. JESUS B. GARCIA, JR., the LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARD, and the PROVINCIAL BUSES OPERATORS ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 115381 | 1994-12-23

D E C I S I O N 
 
KAPUNAN, J.: 
 
Public utilities are privately owned and operated businesses whose service are essential to the general public. They are enterprises which specially cater to the needs of the public and conduce to their comfort and convenience. As such, public utility services are impressed with public interest and concern. The same is true with respect to the business of common carrier which holds such a peculiar relation to the public interest that there is superinduced upon it the right of public regulation when private properties are affected with public interest, hence, they cease to be juris privati...