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The Supreme Court denied MCMP's petition for review and affirmed the appellate court's ruling allowing Monark to present secondary evidence of the rental equipment contract. The Court found that Monark met the requirements to introduce secondary evidence by establishing the original contract's existence and loss, and showing diligent efforts to find it. MCMP also failed to present its own copy or explain its absence, allowing an adverse presumption against it. The appellate court properly applied the rules on secondary evidence and the best evidence rule in upholding the trial court's judgment for Monark.
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41. MCMP Construction Corporation v. Monark Equipment Corporation
The Supreme Court denied MCMP's petition for review and affirmed the appellate court's ruling allowing Monark to present secondary evidence of the rental equipment contract. The Court found that Monark met the requirements to introduce secondary evidence by establishing the original contract's existence and loss, and showing diligent efforts to find it. MCMP also failed to present its own copy or explain its absence, allowing an adverse presumption against it. The appellate court properly applied the rules on secondary evidence and the best evidence rule in upholding the trial court's judgment for Monark.
The Supreme Court denied MCMP's petition for review and affirmed the appellate court's ruling allowing Monark to present secondary evidence of the rental equipment contract. The Court found that Monark met the requirements to introduce secondary evidence by establishing the original contract's existence and loss, and showing diligent efforts to find it. MCMP also failed to present its own copy or explain its absence, allowing an adverse presumption against it. The appellate court properly applied the rules on secondary evidence and the best evidence rule in upholding the trial court's judgment for Monark.
G.R. No. 201001 | November 10, 2014 - The appellate court should have disallowed the presentation of secondary Petition: Petition for Review on Certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court evidence to prove the existence of the Contract, following the Best Evidence Petitioner: MCMP CONSTRUCTION CORP. Rule. Respondent: MONARK EQUIPMENT CORP. - Based on the testimony of Peregrino, Monark did not diligently search for the original copy of the Contract DOCTRINE The Best Evidence Rule is a basic postulate requiring the production of the original ISSUE/S document whenever its contents are the subject of inquiry. 1. W/N CA erred in allowing the presentation of secondary evidence to prove the existence of the Contract. FACTS - MCMP Construction Corporation leased heavy equipment from Monark RULING & RATIO Equipment Corporation for various periods in 2000, the lease covered by a - NO Rental Equipment Contract. - The Best Evidence Rule, a basic postulate requiring the production of the - MONARK delivered 5 pieces of heavy equipment to the project site of MCMP original document whenever its contents are the subject of inquiry. in Tanay, Rizal and Llavac, Quezon, the delivery evidenced by invoices as - In Country Bankers Insurance Corporation v. Lagman, the court held tha well as Documents Acknowledgment Receipt. before a party is allowed to adduce secondary evidence to prove the - the invoices state: contents of the original, the offeror must prove the following: o “Credit sales are payable within 30 days from the date of invoice. o (1) the existence or due execution of the original; xxxxxxxxxxx." o (2) the loss and destruction of the original or the reason for its non- - Despite the lapse of the thirty (30)-day period indicated in the invoices, MCMP production in court; and failed to pay the rental fees. Thus, MONARK filed a suit for a Sum of Money o (3) on the part of the offeror, the absence of bad faith to which the with the RTC. unavailability of the original can be attributed. - MCMP further averred that it had an agreement with MONARK that it would - In the instant case, the above requisites are present. not be charged for the whole time that the leased equipment was in its - MCMP, contends that the Contract presented by MONARK is not the contract possession but rather only for the actual time that the equipment was used that they entered into. Yet, it has failed to present a copy of the Contract even although still on the project site. MCMP, however, admitted that this despite the request of the trial court for it to produce its copy of the Contract. agreement was not contained in the Contract. o Thus, MCMP’s failure to present the same and even explain its - During trial, MONARK presented its witness, Reynaldo Peregrino, its Senior failure, not only justifies the presentation by MONARK of secondary Account Manager. Peregrino testified that there were 2 original copies of the evidence in accordance with Section 6 of Rule 130 of the Rules of Contract, one retained by MONARK, while the other was given to MCMP. Court, but it also gives rise to the disputable presumption adverse to o He further testified that MONARK’S copy had been lost and that MCMP under Section 3 (e) of Rule 131 of the Rules of Court that diligent efforts to recover the copy proved futile. "evidence willfully suppressed would be adverse if produced." o Instead, Peregrino presented a photocopy of the Contract which he DISPOSITION personally had on file. WHEREFORE, premises considered, the instant petition is hereby DENIED for lack of - MCMP objected to the presentation of secondary evidence to prove the merit with the MODIFICATION that the dispositive portion of the RTC's Decision dated contents of the Contract arguing that there were no diligent efforts to search November 20, 2007, as amended in an Order dated April 28, 2008 for the original copy. RTC: Ruled in favor of MONARK. Ordered MCMP to pay the rental fees. -MR denied CA: Affirmed in toto
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