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Marcelo Macalinao vs. Eddie Medecielo Ong

MARCELO MACALINAO, Substituted by ESPERANZA MACALINAO and ANTONIO MACALINAO, Petitioners, versus EDDIE MEDECIELO ONG and GENOVEVO SEBASTIAN, Respondents.

G.R. No. 146635 | 2005-12-14

D E C I S I O N

Tinga, J.:

Before this Court is a Petition for Review on Certiorari assailing the Decision[1] and Resolution[2] of the Court of Appeals dated 31 May 2000 and 7 September 2000, respectively, in CA-G.R. CV No. 52963. The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the trial court and dismissed the complaint for damages filed by Marcelo Macalinao (Macalinao) against Eddie Medecielo Ong (Ong) and Genovevo Sebastian (Sebastian) for insufficiency of evidence.

The antecedent facts follow.

Macalinao and Ong were employed as utility man and driver, respectively, at the Genetron International Marketing (Genetron), a single...