G.R. No. L-34583, 22 October 1931, 56 Phil. 215 FACTS: The estate of Adolphe Oscar Schuetze is the sole beneficiary named in the life-insurance policy for $10,000, issued by the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. During the following five years the insured paid the premiums at the Manila branch of the company. The deceased [...]

G.R. No. L-9374, 16 February 1915, 29 Phil. 535 FACTS: This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila dismissing the complaint with costs. The parties are siblings who were the only heirs at law and next of kin of Gregorio del Val, who passed away [...]

G.R. No. 127897, 15 November 2001, 369 SCRA 24 FACTS: Caltex entered into a contract of affreightment with Delsan Transport Lines, Inc., for a period of one year whereby the said common carrier agreed to transport Caltex’s industrial fuel oil from the Batangas-Bataan Refinery to different parts of the country. Under the contract, petitioner took [...]

G.R. No. 84507, 15 March 1990, 18 SCRA 223 FACTS: In 1976 petitioner imported some lactose crystals from Holland. The importation involved fifteen (15) metric tons packed in 600 6-ply paper bags with polythelene inner bags, each bag at 25 kilos net. The goods were loaded at the port at Rotterdam in sea vans on [...]

G.R. No. 85141, 28 November 1989, 179 SCRA 638 FACTS: In 1976, private respondent insured its shipment with petitioner insurance company for the sum of P267,653.59 for the goods described as 60 metric tons of fishmeal in new gunny bags of 90 kilos each from Thailand to Manila against all risks under warehouse to warehouse [...]

G.R. No. L-66935, 11 November 1985, 139 SCRA 597 FACTS: In 1972, the Manila Bay Lighterage Corporation (Manila Bay), a common carrier, entered into a contract with the petitioners whereby the former would load and carry on board its barge logs from Palawan to Manila. The petitioners insured the logs against loss for P100,000.00 with [...]

G.R. No. 94052, 9 August 1991, 200 SCRA 459 FACTS: On January 1986, private respondent Panama Sawmill Co., Inc. (Panama) bought1,208 pieces of apitong logs, with a total volume of 2,000 cubic meters. It hired Transpacific Towage, Inc., to transport the logs by sea to Manila and insured it against loss for P1-M with petitioner [...]

G.R. No. L-27932, 30 October 1972, 47 SCRA 271 FACTS: On January 12, 1962, Union Manufacturing Co., Inc. (UMC) obtain certain loans from Republic Bank in the total sum of 415,000.00. To secure the payment thereof, UMC executed real and chattel mortgage on certain properties. The Republic Bank procured from the defendant Philippine Guaranty Co., [...]

G.R. No. L-36232, 19 December 1974, 61 SCRA 426 FACTS: Respondent Oliva Yap was the owner of a store in a two-storey building where she sold shopping bags and footwear. On April 19, 1962, respondent Yap took out Fire Insurance Policy No. 4216 from petitioner Pioneer Insurance & Surety Corporation with a face value of [...]

1949, 47 OG 3012 FACTS: This action was instituted by the minors Vicentita Antigua Paulin and Silvina Paulin, who are sisters assisted by their guardian ad-litem, for the purpose of collecting the amount of three life insurance policies issued by the defendant, the Insular Life Assurance Co. ltd. In favor of their father, Estaban Paulin, [...]