Practice question
A scrap dealer regularly offers merchants paid transport on return trips. Carriage is ancillary and trips are irregular. Which is best under De Guzman?
- Those features alone do not prevent common-carrier classification
- Ancillary work is always private carriage
- Irregular trips are categorically exempt
- Only daily scheduled buses are common carriers
- A merchant cannot operate a carrier
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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