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METROPOLITAN BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, PETITIONER, VS. MARINA B. CUSTODIO, RESPONDENT.

METROPOLITAN BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, PETITIONER, VS. MARINA B. CUSTODIO, RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 173780 | 2011-03-21

THIRD DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N

SERENO, J.:

This civil case is essentially a demand by a bank for the recovery of a sum of money from one of its tellers who allegedly failed to account for funds entrusted to her, amounting to six hundred thousand pesos (PhP600,000).
 
Petitioner Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company (Metrobank) is a banking corporation. On the other hand, respondent Marina Custodio is a bank teller employed at the Laoag City branch of petitioner Metrobank.1
 
On 13 June 1995 at 8:18 a.m.,2 respondent Custodio reported for work in petitioner bank's branch in Laoag City.3 At the start of the banking day,...