QC RTC to try damage suit against ABS-CBN

THE Court of Appeals has given the Quezon City regional trial court the go signal to hear the civil case filed against television network ABS-CBN Corporation in connection with the death of a mother and her six-year-old daughter sometime in 2002.

In an 11-page decision written by Associate Justice Leoncia Real-Dimagiba and concurred in by Associate Justices Amelita To–lentino and Ricardo Rosario, the CA’s Fourth Division denied ABS-CBN’s petition that asked the appeals court to halt the lower court from proceeding with the complaint for damages filed by one Manolito Roxas seeking an order from the court for ABS-CBN to pay him P17.34 million in damages for the death of his wife, Estela, and daughter, Pauline.