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G.R. No. 108052, 24 July 1996

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Case Digests PNB, herein petitioner, doubly credited the private respondent’s account erroneously.
Petitioner then demanded the private respondent to return the amount in excess, equal
Chapter News to P34,340.58. Thereafter, remittances from abroad to the private respondent were
coursed through petitioner PNB. Without his knowledge and consent, the bank deducted
Uncategorized P34,340.58 from the remittances, by virtue of compensation. Private respondent averred
contending that the bank does not have a legal justification to make compensation on
the remittances. The trial and the CA ruled in favor of the private respondent and ordered
the amount taken by the petitioner to be returned the private respondent.
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RULING:
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Technologies, Inc. v. No. The Court affirms the decision of the lower courts. The trial court correctly ruled that
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Article 1279 of the Civil Code provides:
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That each one of the obligors be bound principally, and that he be at the same
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time a principal creditor of the other;
That both debts consist in a sum of money, or if the things due are consumable,
they are of the same kind, and also of the same quality if the latter has been
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That the two debts be due;
That they are liquidated and demandable;
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third persons and communicated in due time to the debtor.
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 As to the relationship created by the telexed fund transfers from abroad: A contract
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between a foreign bank and local bank asking the latter to pay an amount to a
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beneficiary is a stipulation pour autrui. the parties are not both principally bound with
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respect to the $2,627.11 from Jeddah; neither are they at the same time principal
creditor of the other. Therefore, as matters stand, the parties’ obligations are not subject
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to compensation or set off under Art. 1279 of the Civil Code, for the reason that the
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defendant is not a principal debtor nor, is the plaintiff a principal creditor insofar as the
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amount of $2,627.11 is concerned. They are debtor and creditor only with respect to the
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double payments; but are trustee-beneficiary as to the fund transfer of $2,627.11.
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* Case digest by Suzeyne Garcia, LLB-1, Andres Bonifacio Law School, SY 2017-2018

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