Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(1990)
FACTS:
Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, Inc., a religious corporation, built
through its agents, waterpaths, water conductors and contrivances
including an artificial lake within its land
inundated and eroded the spouses Emmanuel and Natividad Andamo's
land, caused a young man to drown, damaged petitioners' crops and
plants, washed away costly fences, endangered the lives of petitioners
and their laborers during rainy and stormy seasons, and exposed plants
and other improvements to destruction
July 1982:spouses instituted a criminal action
February 22, 1983: spouses filed a civil case for damages
CA affirmed trial court issued an order suspending further hearings in
Civil Case until after judgment in the related Criminal Case
spouses contend that the trial court and the Appellate Court erred in
dismissing Civil Case since it is predicated on a quasi-delict
ISSUE: W/N there is quasi-delict even if done in private propety