Practice question
A negligently disabled warning alarm fails when the very hazard it should detect occurs. Its failure is proved to cause the victim’s lack of warning and injury. Is the alarm merely harmless because it was silent?
- Yes; sound is necessary for all causal responsibility.
- Yes; a silent device is legally incapable of contributing.
- No; every silent alarm creates liability regardless of defect.
- No; silence does not negate the proved causal omission.
- Yes; only the hazard source may ever be liable.
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles 2176 and 2194: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Phoenix Construction, Inc. v. IAC, G.R. No. L-65295, March 10, 1987, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1987/mar1987/gr_l-65295_1987.html
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