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2009-01-12 |
AZCUNA, J. |
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| Nor can it be contended that the inventory lists are self-serving simply because they were prepared by petitioner's employees. These documents were prepared ante litem motam, and without anticipation that any litigation between the parties may ensue in the future. In Philippine Airlines, Inc. v. Ramos,[47] this Court held that a writing or document made contemporaneously with a transaction which evidenced facts pertinent to the issue, when adduced as proof of those facts, is ordinarily regarded as more reliable proof and of greater probative force than the oral testimony of a witness as to such facts based upon memory and recollection. Statements, acts or conducts accompanying or so nearly connected with the main transaction as to form part of it, and which illustrate, elucidate, qualify or characterize the act, are admissible as part of the res gestae.[48] | |||||