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Northern Cemetn Corp. vs. I.A.Court, etal.

NORTHERN CEMENT CORPORATION, petitioner-appellant, vs. INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT and SHIPSIDE INCORPORATED, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-68636 | 1988-02-29

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The basic issue in this case is the meaning of the phrase "integrated services" as used in the agreement entered into by the Northern Cement Corporation, the herein appellant, and appellee Shipside, Inc. It is nothing short of amazing that no attempt whatsoever was made beforehand to expressly define or delimit the same, considering the cost and volume of such services. And what is equally incredible is that the contract was not even in writing, as if the parties considered the subject there of not important enough to merit more than a verbal understanding.

As it turned out, perhaps inevitably, these omissions...