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Yht Realty Corp, Erlinda Lainez And Anicia Payam vs. CA And Maurice Mcloughlin

YHT REALTY CORPORATION, ERLINDA LAINEZ and ANICIA PAYAM, Petitioners, versus THE COURT OF APPEALS and MAURICE McLOUGHLIN, Respondents.

G.R. No. 126780 | 2005-02-17



SECOND DIVISION
DECISION

TINGA, J.:

The primary question of interest before this Court is the only legal issue in the case:  It is whether a hotel may evade liability for the loss of items left with it for safekeeping by its guests, by having these guests execute written waivers holding the establishment or its employees free from blame for such loss in light of Article 2003 of the Civil Code which voids such waivers.

Before this Court is a Rule 45 petition for review of the Decision[1] dated 19 October 1995 of the Court of Appeals which affirmed the Decision[2] dated 16 December 1991 of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 13, of...