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Manila Railroad Co. Vs. La Compania Trasatlantica 038 Phil 875

THE MANILA RAILROAD CO., plaintiff-appellant, vs. LA COMPA?IA TRASATLANTICA, defendant-appellee, and THE ATLANTIC, GULF & PACIFIC CO., defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 11318 | 1918-10-26

D E C I S I O N

STREET, J .:

In March, 1914, the steamship Alicante, belonging to the Compañia Trasatlantica de Barcelona, arrived at Manila with two locomotive boilers aboard, the property of The Manila Railroad Company. The equipment of the ship for discharging heavy cargo was not sufficiently strong to handle these boilers, and it was therefore necessary for the Steamship Company to procure assistance in the port of Manila.

The Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company (hereafter called the Atlantic Company) was accordingly employed by the Steamship Company, as having probably the best equipment for this purpose of any contracting company...