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Munar, Remedios vs. Ernesto B. Flores

REMEDIOS MUNAR, complainant, vs. ATTY. ERNESTO B. FLORES, respondent.

A.C. No. 2112 | 1983-05-30

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J.:

The herein administrative sworn complaint was filed on January 9, 1980 by complainant Remedios Munar against respondent Atty. Ernesto B. Flores of Baguio City, charging that respondent attorney had deceitfully defrauded her of the sum of P5,863.00, which amount he induced her to entrust to him on the misrepresentation that it represented the cost of fees and other miscellaneous expenses in connection with the suit that he promised to file on her behalf, but which promised suit he never filed nor did he return the said amount despite repeated demands.

The Court required respondent to answer the complaint...