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Philippine Airlines (PAL) vs. CA and Pantejo

PHILIPPINE AIRLINES, INC., PETITIONER, VS. COURT OF APPEALS AND LEOVIGILDO A. PANTEJO, RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. 120262 | 1997-07-17

D E C I S I O N
 
REGALADO, J.:
 
In this appeal by certiorari, petitioner Philippine Airlines, Inc. (PAL) seeks to set aside the decision of respondent Court of Appeals,[1] promulgated on December 29, 1994, which affirmed the award for damages made by the trial court in favor of herein private respondent Leovegildo A. Pantejo.

On October 23, 1988, private respondent Pantejo, then City Fiscal of Surigao City, boarded a PAL plane in Manila and disembarked in Cebu City where he was supposed to take his connecting flight to Surigao City. However, due to typhoon Osang, the connecting flight to Surigao City was cancelled.

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