Practice question
A pipeline operator transports petroleum owned by several customers, holds itself out for the paid service and satisfies the legal common-carrier criteria. In litigation it argues that goods carriage requires a separate vehicle containing the product and physically traveling with it. Which is correct?
- A moving container is always indispensable
- Only passenger buses can qualify
- First Philippine Industrial recognizes the pipeline mode; the asserted additional vehicle requirement is not part of the definition applied there.
- Every pipeline owner is automatically a carrier even for solely private internal use
- The customers’ contracts automatically abolish the Code
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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