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Vda De Espino vs Presquito

Linda Vda. De Espino, Complainant, versus ATTY. PEPITO C. PRESQUITO, Respondent.

A.M. No. AC 4762 | 2004-06-28

RESOLUTION



PUNO, J.:



On June 9, 1997, Linda Vda. de Espino wrote a letter-complaint[1] with the then Court Administrator Alfredo Benipayo, charging respondent Atty. Pepito C. Presquito, a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), Misamis Oriental Chapter, for "having employed fraud, trickery and
dishonest means in refusing to honor and pay [her] late husband Virgilio Espino, when he was still alive, the sum of P763,060.00." According to complainant, respondent's unlawful refusal and dilatory tactics partly triggered the death of her husband, who died "disillusioned and embittered."[2] The letter-complaint and affidavit...