Practice question
A passenger is injured by a stranger’s act. Employees could neither anticipate nor prevent or stop it even using the Article 1763 prudent-care standard, and no independent carrier fault is shown. Counsel says that article makes the carrier automatically liable for every stranger act without those conditions. Which is correct?
- Every stranger act automatically proves the condition
- Only employee age matters
- The article has no prevention qualification
- Article 1763’s express prevention-or-stopping condition must be examined; it is not unconditional liability for every stranger’s act.
- The carrier may ignore every future threat
Legal references
- Civil Code, Articles 1732-1733, 1745-1754 and 1758-1763: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
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