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Travellers Insurance & Surety Corp. vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

TRAVELLERS INSURANCE & SURETY CORPORATION, petitioner vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and VICENTE MENDOZA, respondents.

G.R. No. 82036 | 1997-05-22

FIRST DIVISION

D E C I S I O N 


HERMOSISIMA, JR., J.: 

The petition herein seeks the review and reversal of the decision 1 of respondent Court of Appeals 2 affirming in toto the judgment 3 of the Regional Trial Court 4 in an action for damages 5 filed by private respondent Vicente Mendoza, Jr. as heir of his mother who was killed in a vehicular accident. 

Before the trial court, the complainant lumped the erring taxicab driver, the owner of the taxicab, and the alleged insurer of the vehicle which featured in the vehicular accident into one complaint. 

The erring taxicab was allegedly covered by a third-party liability...