Practice question
A business transports customers’ petroleum products by pipeline for compensation and otherwise meets the common-carrier criteria. It claims lack of wheels conclusively makes it private. Which is correct?
- First Philippine Industrial rejects a vehicle-only reading; the stipulated pipeline mode does not establish that defense.
- Every pipe is automatically private regardless of use
- Only the pipeline’s color matters
- Goods can never be carried by land
- A fee necessarily makes all transport private
Legal references
- First Philippine Industrial Corporation v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 125948, December 29, 1998, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1998/dec1998/gr_125948_1998.html
- Civil Code, Articles 1732-1733, 1745-1754 and 1758-1763: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
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