DE LARNA, STELLA MARIZ D.

G.R. No. 213088, June 28, 2017

LTFRB vs. G.V. FLORIDA TRANSPORT, INC.

Principle: The right to enter the public employment as a common carrier and to offer one's services
to the public for hire does not carry with it the right to conduct that business as one pleases, without
regard to the interests of the public and free from such reasonable and just regulations as may be
prescribed for the protection of the public from the reckless or careless indifference of the carrier
as to the public welfare and for the prevention of unjust and unreasonable discrimination of any
kind whatsoever in the performance of the carrier's duties as a servant of the public.

G.R. No. 190271, September 14, 2016

TRANSIMEX CO., vs. MAFRE ASIAN INSURANCE CORP.

Principle: The law of the country to which the goods are to be transported shall govern the liability
of the common carrier for their loss, destruction or deterioration. The Code takes precedence as
the primary law over the rights and obligations of common carriers with the Code of Commerce
and Carrier of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA) applying suppletorily.

G.R. No. 208802, October 15, 2015

G.V. FLORIDA TRANSPORT, INC. VS. HEIRS OF ROMEO L. BATTUNG, JR.,
REPRESENTED BY ROMEO BATTUNG, SR.
Principle: Fairness demands that in measuring a common carrier's duty towards its passengers,
allowance must be given to the reliance that should be reposed on the sense of responsibility of all
the passengers in regard to their common safety. It is to be presumed that a passenger will not take
with him anything dangerous to the lives and limbs of his co-passengers, not to speak of his own.

G.R. No. 167837, March 11, 2015

JAIME SABENIANO, JR., vs. CA
Principle: The impossibility of determining the amount of actual damage caused to the goods of
the consignee while they were in the possession of the shipper and the amount of the actual damage
incurred while the goods were in the hands of the petitioner was due to the petitioner's failure to
exercise the degree of diligence required of it.