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UP vs. Domingo P. Gabriel, etal.

UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES, COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE and/or UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. DOMINGO P. GABRIEL, doing business under the name and style: ALLIED PLUMBING COMPANY and THE HONORABLE INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, respondents.

G.R. No. 70826 | 1987-10-12

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

The decisive issue in the instant petition is whether or not petitioner University of the Philippines (UP) is solidarily liable with Beta Construction Company, Inc., to pay the amount of P68,843.98 representing the unpaid balance for labor and materials expended in the plumbing and extra works performed at the Biological Science Building of the U.P. College of Agriculture, by the sub-contractor, Allied Plumbing Company, the private respondent herein.

On December 27, 1966, the UP and Beta Construction Co., Inc., entered into a contract for the latter to construct the Biological Science Building of the...