Practice question
For facts found materially equivalent to Philippine Bank of Commerce, a court adopts its 60–40 actual-damages allocation and separately orders an unreduced PHP 25,000 attorney’s-fee award against the bank defendants. On PHP 1,000,000 actual loss, what combined amount follows those express orders?
- PHP 625,000
- PHP 600,000
- PHP 615,000
- PHP 425,000
- PHP 1,025,000
Legal references
- Civil Code, Articles 1735, 1755-1756, 2176, 2179, 2184-2185 and 2214: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Philippine Bank of Commerce v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 97626, March 14, 1997, MAIN decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1997/mar1997/gr_97626_1997.html
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