Practice question
A passenger repeatedly threatens another rider in full view of bus employees. They have ample safe opportunity through ordinary prudent measures to stop the conduct, but do nothing. The threatened rider is then injured. The carrier argues stranger or co-passenger misconduct can never create its responsibility. Which is best?
- Every stranger's act always makes the carrier an absolute insurer
- Article 1763 imposes responsibility where employees exercising a good father's diligence could have prevented or stopped the act
- Employees never owe any preventive duty
- Only proof of the carrier's own physical assault can matter
- A warning sign always eliminates liability
Legal references
- Civil Code, Article 1763: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
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