Practice question
A stranger repeatedly threatens a passenger. Employees have a safe available way to prevent the injury using ordinary prudent care but ignore it. The stated injury follows. Which rule directly addresses the carrier’s responsibility?
- Every stranger’s act is automatically outside all carrier duty
- Article 1763’s conditional responsibility for preventable or stoppable stranger acts
- Only a rule about freight taxes
- Only the stranger’s employment contract
- No Civil Code provision addresses strangers
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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