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Sps Yu Eng Cho & Francisco Tao Yu vs Pan American World, etal

SPOUSES YU ENG CHO and FRANCISCO TAO YU, petitioners, vs. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., TOURIST WORLD SERVICES, INC., JULIETA CANILAO and CLAUDIA TAGUNICAR, respondents.

G.R. No. 123560 | 2000-03-27

D E C I S I O N

PUNO, J.:

This petition for review seeks a reversal of the 31 August 1995 Decision1 [Penned by Associate Justice Antonio M. Martinez, with Consuelo Ynares-Santiago and Ruben T. Reyes, JJ., concurring; Rollo, 35-49.] and 11 January 1998 Resolution2 [Ibid., 51.] of the Court of Appeals holding private respondent Claudia Tagunicar solely liable for moral and exemplary damages and attorney's fees, and deleting the trial court's award for actual damages.

The facts as found by the trial court are as follows:

"Plaintiff Yu Eng Cho is the owner of Young Hardware Co. and Achilles Marketing. In connection with [this] business, he...