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Magbanua vs Tabusares, Jr

ENDREO MAGBANUA, VALLACAR TRANSIT, INC., and its Present Corporate Official RICARDO YANSON, petitioners, vs. JOSE TABUSARES, JR., EVA T. LAFIGUERA, NONA C. TABUSARES, JUN C. TABUSARES, FE C. TABUSARES and JAX C. TABUSARES, respondents.

G.R. No. 152134 | 2004-06-04

D E C I S I O N




PUNO, J.:

The case at bar arose from the complaint for damages filed by spouses Jose Tabusares, Sr. and Rebecca Tabusares against petitioners, Endreo A. Magbanua, Vallacar Transit, Inc., and/or its corporate officials for the tragic death of their son, Jury Tabusares, in a vehicular mishap involving a Ceres Liner Bus owned and operated by petitioners. The case was docketed as Civil Case No. 4654 before the Regional Trial Court of Negros Occidental, Branch 48, Bacolod City.

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

At about 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon of October 25, 1986, a Ceres Liner Bus No. 154 with...