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Fidel C. Cabardo Vs. CA, et al.

FIDEL C. CABARDO, petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS and JUANITO C. RODIL, respondents.

G.R. No. 118202 | 1998-05-19

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J:

This is a petition for review on certiorari of the decision 1 of the Court of Appeals, reversing the decision of the Regional Trial Court and absolving private respondent from liability for damages to petitioner Fidel Cabardo.

The facts are as follows:

Jose Peralta was a driver of the Consolidated Industrial Gases Incorporated (CIGI). On October 26, 1987, while driving the company's truck-tanker bearing Plate No. NBG-925 on the southbound lane of the South Luzon Expressway, on his way back to the CIGI office in Santa Rosa, Laguna, he met an accident. Peralta claimed that when the truck-tanker reached...