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Equitable Banking Corporation vs. Special Steel Products, Inc. and Augusto L. Pardo

EQUITABLE BANKING CORPORATION, INC. Petitioner, vs. SPECIAL STEEL PRODUCTS, and AUGUSTO L. PARDO, Respondents.

G.R. No. 175350 | 2012-06-13

FIRST DIVISION


D E C I S I O N

 

DEL CASTILLO, J.:

 

            A crossed check with the notation “account payee only” can only be deposited in the named payee’s account.  It is gross negligence for a bank to ignore this rule solely on the basis of a third party’s oral representations of having a good title thereto. 

 

            Before the Court is a Petition for Review on Certiorari of the October 13, 2006 Decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CV No....