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Philippine Airlines, Inc. vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

PHILIPPINE AIRLINES, INC., petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and NATIVIDAD VDA. DE PADILLA, substituted by her legal heirs, namely: AUGUSTO A. PADILLA, ALBERTO A. PADILLA, CRESENCIO R. ABES (representing the deceased Isabel Padilla Abes), MIGUEL, A. PADILLA and RAMON A. PADILLA, respondents.

G.R. No. 54470 | 1990-05-08

D E C I S I O N


GRIá'O-AQUINO, J.:

The only legal issue raised by the petitioner in this thirty-year-old case is whether the indemnity for the death of private respondent's son, the late Nicanor A. Padilla, should be computed on the basis of his life expectancy, as the trial court and the Court of Appeals did, rather than the life expectancy of private respondent, his only legal heir, as the petitioner contends.

On November 23, 1960, at 5:30 P.M., Starlight Flight No. 26 of the Philippine Air Lines (hereafter PAL) took off from the Manduriao Airport in Iloilo, on its way to Manila, with 33 persons on board, including the plane's...