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1. The municipality of Malasiqui held a town fiesta in 1959 where Vicente Fontanilla died after the stage collapsed during a performance. 2. The Supreme Court ruled that celebrating a town fiesta is a private or proprietary function of a municipality, not a governmental one. 3. As such, the municipality is liable under the doctrine of respondeat superior for the negligence of its agents in constructing an unsafe stage and allowing too many spectators, which led to the collapse and Fontanilla

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JC Baer

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