MANILA – The Court of Appeals (CA) has ordered food manufacturer Mega Fishing Corp. to pay more than PHP1.8 million in damages to another firm that processed, canned and packed their products.
In an Oct. 10 decision penned by Associate Justice Fernanda Peralta, the CA affirmed the Makati Regional Trial Court's ruling last year ordering Mega Fishing Corp. (Mega) to pay Mofel Food Corp. (Mofel) a sum of PHP1,803,830 representing unpaid deliveries of canned products which the latter processed, canned and packed for the former.
The deal signed in 2012 expired in December of that year but Mega continued to engage Morfel in canning and packing its products until 2016.
However, from April to November 2016, Mega was only able to pay partially for the processed products, left an outstanding unpaid balance and failed to settle the same despite several requests from Mofel.
Mega, meanwhile, claimed that since the original processing agreement ran until December 2012 only, it is presumed that the outstanding amounts had been settled and that the case should have been filed in Navotas City and not Makati where the RTC ruled that there was sufficient proof of Mega's indebtedness.
"Findings of facts of the trial court will not be disturbed on appeal unless some facts or circumstances of weight have been overlooked, misapprehended, or misinterpreted which would otherwise materially affect the disposition of the case," the tribunal said in affirming the Makati court's ruling. (PNA)
