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Metro Manila Transit Corporation, et al vs The CA, et al

METRO MANILA TRANSIT CORPORATION and APOLINARIO AJOC, petitioners, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS and COL. MARTIN P. SABALBURO, NAPOLEON G. SABALBURO, MARTIN G. SABALBURO, JR., BABY MARIFLOR G. SABALBURO, and MIRASOL G. SABALBURO, respondents.

G.R. No. 141089 | 2002-08-01

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On appeal is the decision[1] of the Court of Appeals promulgated on August 25, 1999 in CA-G.R. CV No. 45002, which affirmed in toto the judgment of the Regional Trial Court of Makati, Branch 62, in Civil Case No. 16062. The trial court found herein petitioners liable for the death of Florentina Sabalburo in a vehicular accident involving a passenger bus owned by petitioner Metro Manila Transit Corporation (MMTC) and driven by petitioner Apolinario Ajoc, and ordered them to pay damages to private respondents.

The factual backdrop of this case, as found by the Court of Appeals, is as follows:

The...