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Magno Vs CA

Magno was trying to open a car repair shop and approached Corazon Teng for equipment. Teng referred Magno to an equipment leasing company but privately financed Magno's warranty deposit without his knowledge. Magno was unable to pay the rental fees or repay Teng, and his checks bounced. Magno was convicted of violating the Bouncing Checks law. The court ruled that Magno should not be charged for the warranty since it remained with the leasing company, Teng's financing scheme took advantage of businessmen, and Magno openly admitted he did not have funds for the deposit from the beginning.

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Magno Vs CA

Magno was trying to open a car repair shop and approached Corazon Teng for equipment. Teng referred Magno to an equipment leasing company but privately financed Magno's warranty deposit without his knowledge. Magno was unable to pay the rental fees or repay Teng, and his checks bounced. Magno was convicted of violating the Bouncing Checks law. The court ruled that Magno should not be charged for the warranty since it remained with the leasing company, Teng's financing scheme took advantage of businessmen, and Magno openly admitted he did not have funds for the deposit from the beginning.

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Magno vs CA

Magno was in the process of putting up a car repair shop, for which he approached VP of Mancor
Industries (supplier of equipment) Corazon Teng who referred him to LS finance and Management
Corp (Rental money was exchanged for the materials). The arrangement was such that Magno was
to give a warranty deposit amounting to 30% of the value of the equipment to be purchased= 29,
790. Since he could not produce such, Corazon Teng, unknown to Magno, financed this on the
request of Joey Gomez. The parts were then delivered to Magno and Magno issued a check to Joey
Gomez which he gave to Corazon. When the check matured, Magno asked not to have it deposited
as he was no long banking with Pacific Bank. He then issued multiple checks to replace it. Magno
was also unable to pay the rentals to LS finance, thus pulling Magnos garage equipment. Magno
came to learn that it was Corazon who financed the deposit and promised to pay her. However,
this never happened and the checks that he issued were returned for the reason of a closed account.
Magno was then convicted by the RTC of violation BP 22.
Ruling:
1) Warranty should not be charged to Magno since it remained with LS finance. A scheme
whereby Mrs. Teng as the supplier of the equipment in the name of her corporation, Mancor,
would be able to sell or lease its goods as in this case, and at the same time, privately
financing those who desperately need petty accommodations as this one. This modus
operandi has in so many instances victimized unsuspecting businessmen, who likewise
need protection from the law, by availing of the deceptively called warranty deposit not
realizing that they also fall prey to leasing equipment under the guise of a lease purchase
agreement when it is a scheme designed to skim off business clients.

2) It is not clear whether Magno really committed an offense in BP 22. In the instant case,
there is no doubt that petitioners four (4) checks were used to collateralize an
accommodation, and not to cover the receipt of an actual account or credit for value as
this was absent, and therefore petitioner should not be punished for mere issuance of the
checks in question. From the very beginning, petitioner never hid the fact that he did not
have the funds with which to put up the warranty deposit and as a matter of fact, he openly
intimated this to the vital conduit of the transaction, Joey Gomez, to whom petitioner was
introduced by Mrs. Teng.

3) How can he produce documents showing that the warranty deposit has already been taken
back by Mrs. Teng when she is an officer of Mancor which has interest in the transaction,
besides being personally interested in the profit of her sideline. Thus, even if she may have
gotten back the value of the accommodation, she would still pursue collecting from the
petitioner since she had in her possession the checks that bounced.

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