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Melba Quinto vs Dante Andres, et al.

MELBA QUINTO, Petitioner, versus DANTE ANDRES and RANDYVER PACHECO, Respondents.

G.R. No. 155791 | 2005-03-16

D E C I S I O N 


CALLEJO, SR., J.: 

     At around 7:30 a.m. on November 13, 1995, eleven-year-old Edison Garcia, a Grade 4 elementary school pupil, and his playmate, Wilson Quinto, who was also about eleven years old, were at Barangay San Rafael, Tarlac, Tarlac. They saw respondents Dante Andres and Randyver Pacheco by the mouth of a drainage culvert. Andres and Pacheco invited Wilson to go fishing with them inside the drainage culvert.[1] Wilson assented. When Garcia saw that it was dark inside, he opted to remain seated in a grassy area about two meters from the entrance of the drainage system.[2] 

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