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	GR No. 144934 2004-01-15	ADELFA S. RIVERA v. DEL ROSARIO QUISUMBING, J.
While it has been sufficiently proven that the respondents are entitled to damages, the actual amounts awarded by the lower court must be reduced because damages are not intended for a litigant's enrichment, at the expense of the petitioners.[59] The purpose for the award of damages other than actual damages would be served, in this case, by reducing the amounts awarded.
	GR No. 150487 2003-07-10	GERARDO F. SAMSON JR. v. BANK OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PANGANIBAN, J.
of pecuniary estimation, the amount must somehow be proportional to and in approximation of the suffering inflicted.[9] Moral damages are not punitive in nature[10] and were never intended to enrich the claimant at the expense of the defendant.[11] There is no hard-and-fast rule in determining what would be a fair and reasonable amount of moral damages, since each case must be governed by its own peculiar facts.[12] Trial courts are given discretion in determining the amount, with the limitation