Practice question
A manufacturer moves only its own products between its own facilities and does not offer carriage services for compensation to customers or the public. On those facts alone, which is correct?
- Ownership of a truck automatically makes it a common carrier
- All manufacturers are common carriers
- Transport of anything always creates common-carrier status
- A business permit conclusively establishes common-carrier status
- The stated facts do not establish Article 1732’s compensated public-carriage business
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html — Civil Code, Articles 1732 and 1733
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1988/dec1988/gr_l-47822_1988.html — De Guzman v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. L-47822, December 22, 1988, main opinion
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