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Far Eastern Surety & Insurance Company, Inc. vs. Socorro Dancel Vda. De Misa

FAR EASTERN SURETY & INSURANCE COMPANY, INC., petitioner, vs. SOCORRO DANCEL VDA. DE MISA, ARACELI MARIA PINTO and LA MALLORCA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-24377 | 1968-10-26

D E C I S I O N 
 
 
REYES, J.B.L., J.: 
 
Appeal by petition for review from a judgment of the Court of Appeals, in its Case CA-G.R. No. 30846-R, sentencing the Far Eastern Surety & Insurance Company to indemnify La Mallorca on its insurance contract for P9,661.50. 
 
The record discloses that on 3 September 1957 the two respondents, Socorro Dancel Vda. de Misa and Araceli Pinto, hired a taxicab operated by respondent La Mallorca in Quezon City. While proceeding south toward the Archbishop's Palace in Shaw Boulevard, the taxicab collided with a gravel and sand truck, driven by one Faustino Nabor, that...