G.R. No. L-5701 – 93 Phil. 376 – Political Law – Law on Public Officers – Limitations on The Power to Create a Public Office – President Can’t Create Courts In 1950, the University of Santo Tomas was assessed a deficiency tax on its income from tuition fees. UST opposed […]
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G.R. No. 125249 – 335 Phil. 462 – 267 SCRA 806 – Political Law – Law on Public Officers – Election Law; Election Protest Survives the Death of a Party – Public Office is Not Transmissible to Incumbent’s Heir In 1995, Jimmy De Castro was proclaimed as the mayor of […]
G.R. No. 142801-802 – 413 Phil. 281 – 360 SCRA 718 – Political Law – Law on Public Officers – Security of Tenure in a Public Office – No Vested Right to a Public Office – Power to Create and Destroy Public Office During the time of President Corazon Aquino, […]
G.R. No. L-29661 – 138 Phil. 37 – 28 SCRA 334 – Political Law – Law on Public Officers – Appointment in Vacancies of Local Offices (Chief of Police) Not Ministerial In 1968, the Chief of Police of Pasay City died. Then Mayor Jovito Claudio appointed State Prosecutor Francisco Villa […]
G.R. No. 112283 – 236 SCRA 60 – Political Law – Law on Public Officers – Public Office is Personal to the Incumbent Election Law – Claim for damages in an election case does not survive the death of the party claiming damages In 1992, Rosauro Radovan was declared the […]
G.R. No. 128803 – 295 SCRA 469 – 357 Phil. 536 – Civil Law – Conflict of Laws – Private International Law – Service of Summons to a Non Resident – Processual Presumption In 1984, a Hong Kong court ordered Antonio Heras to pay US$1.8 million or its equivalent, with […]
G.R. No. 122191 – 358 Phil. 105 – 297 SCRA 469 – Civil Law – Conflict of Laws – Private International Law – Situs – Locus Actus Milagros Morada was working as a stewardess for Saudia Arabian Airlines. In 1990, while she and some co-workers were in a lay-over in […]
G.R. No. 121171 – 360 Phil. 768 – 300 SCRA 579 – Mercantile Law – Corporation Law – Corporation Generally Not Entitled To Moral Damages – Power To Enter Into Contracts In 1968, the government undertook to support the financing of Marinduque Mining and Industrial Corporation (MMIC). The government then […]
G.R. No. 116123 – 269 SCRA 564 – Mercantile Law – Business Organization – Corporation Law – Close Corporation – Liability for Tort Sergio Naguiat was the president of Clark Field Taxi, Inc. (CFTI) which supplied taxi services to Clark Air Base. At the same time, Naguiat was a director […]
G.R. No. 103576 – 329 Phil. 531 – 260 SCRA 714 – Mercantile Law – Corporation Law – Corporations cannot sue for moral damages In June 1978, Acme Shoe, Rubber & Plastic Corporation executed a chattel mortgage in favor of Producers Bank of the Philippines in consideration of a loan […]
G.R. No. 121413 – 403 Phil. 361 – 350 SCRA 446 – Mercantile Law – Corporation Law – Liability of a Banking Corporation for Wrongful/Tortuous Acts Committed By Its Employees In 1977, 1978, and 1979 Ford Philippines was assessed a tax liability in the amounts of P4.7 million, P5.8 million, […]
G.R. No. L-8527 – 27 Phil. 401 – Mercantile Law – Corporation Law – No Criminal Actions Against A Corporation In 1912, West Coast Life Insurance caused the distribution of printed materials which impressed among the readers thereof that Insular Life Insurance Company is in bad shape. Insular Life then […]
G.R. No. L-27155 – 83 SCRA 237 – Mercantile Law – Corporation Law – Corporation’s Liability for Negligence Rita Tapnio owes PNB an amount of P2,000.00. The amount is secured by her sugar crops about to be harvested including her export quota allocation worth 1,000 piculs. The said export quota […]
G.R. No. L-17160 – 122 Phil. 698 – 15 SCRA 301 – Mercantile Law – Corporation Law – Liability of Foreign Corporations and their Agents Primateria Societe Anonyme Pour Le Commerce Exterieur (Primateria Zurich, a sociedad anonima formed in Zurich), through Alexander Baylin, entered into an agreement with Philippine Products […]
G.R. No. L-7231 – 98 Phil. 711 – Mercantile Law – Corporation Law – Sociedad Anonima – Corporate Existence Benguet Consolidated Mining Company was organized in 1903 under the Spanish Code of Commerce of 1886 as a sociedad anonima. It was agreed by the incorporators that Benguet Mining was to […]
G.R. No. 6217 – 21 Phil. 95 – Mercantile Law – Corporation Law – The Corporation and Its Directors Charles Mead, Edwin McCullough and three others organized the corporation called The Philippine Engineering and Construction Company (PECC). The 4 organizers, except Mead, contributed to the majority of the capital stock […]