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METRO MANILA TRANSIT CORPORATION, PETITIONER, VS. REYNALDO CUEVAS AND JUNNEL CUEVAS, REPRESENTED BY REYNALDO CUEVAS, RESPONDENTS.

METRO MANILA TRANSIT CORPORATION, PETITIONER, VS. REYNALDO CUEVAS AND JUNNEL CUEVAS, REPRESENTED BY REYNALDO CUEVAS, RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. 167797 | 2015-06-15

FIRST DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N

BERSAMIN, J.:

The registered owner of a motor vehicle whose operation causes injury to another is legally liable to the latter. But it is error not to allow the registered owner to recover reimbursement from the actual and present owner by way of its cross-claim.

Antecedents
 
Metro Manila Transit Corporation (MMTC) and Mina's Transit Corporation (Mina's Transit) entered into an agreement to sell dated August 31, 1990,[1] whereby the latter bought several bus units from the former at a stipulated price. They agreed that MMTC would retain the ownership of the buses until certain conditions were...