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Facts:
On July 22, 2003, Pioneer Insurance and Surety Corporation,
by right of subrogation, filed a Complaint for Recovery of Damages
against Durban Apartments Corporation, doing business under the
name and style of City Garden Hotel, and Vicente Justimbaste
Pioneer averred that:
it is the insurer for loss and damage of Jeffrey S. Sees [the
insureds] 2001 Suzuki Grand Vitara in the amount of
P1,175,000.00;
on April 30, 2002, See arrived and checked in at the City
Garden Hotel in Makati corner Kalayaan Avenues, Makati City
before midnight, and See gave notice to the doorman and
parking attendant of the said hotel, Justimbaste, about his
Vitara when he entrusted its ignition key to the latter.
Justimbaste issued a valet parking customer claim stub to See,
parked the Vitara at the Equitable PCI Bank parking area, and
placed the ignition key inside a safety key box while See
proceeded to the hotel lobby to check in. The Equitable PCI
Bank parking area became an annex of City Garden Hotel when
the management of the said bank allowed the parking of the
vehicles of hotel guests thereat in the evening after banking
hours.