Practice question
A city supervises a drainage opening along a national highway. Evidence establishes an uncovered, unlighted defect causing a pedestrian's injury, and the city's relevant control is admitted. It defends solely on the national-road label and makes no other valid defense. Which analysis best follows Teotico?
- The national label automatically defeats the admitted control.
- A city is liable only if the mayor personally dug the opening.
- The city cannot defeat the statutory claim solely through the road's ownership or label when the stipulated control and defect-related injury are established.
- The victim must first become a city employee.
- The city may redefine Article 2189 by resolution.
Legal references
- Civil Code, Article 2189, https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Republic Act No. 7160, section 24, https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7160_1991.html
- City of Manila v. Teotico, G.R. No. L-23052, January 29, 1968, https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1968/jan1968/gr_l-23052_1968.html
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