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Gutierrez vs. Cp

BENIGNO C. GUTIERREZ and DOMINGO N. BALISALISA, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS * , ELISEO G. BALOYO and SOLEDAD RAMOS DE BALOYO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-31611 | 1976-11-29

D E C I S I O N

TEEHANKEE, J:

The Court affirms the appealed judgment of the Court of Appeals granting private respondents a total award of P61,000.00 by way of actual, moral and exemplary damages and attorney's fees due to the tragic death in school of their nine-year old daughter as a result of the gross negligence of petitioners and their crane operators. In view of the clear lack of merit of the appeal, this decision is declared immediately executory upon its promulgation.

Respondents-spouses Eliseo G. Baloyo and Soledad Ramos de Baloyo filed a suit for actual, moral and exemplary damages arising from the death on March 21, 1964 of...