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    The case involves a dispute over a proposed sale of land owned by a bank. [1] The bank's manager negotiated a sale of the land to plaintiffs for $5.5 million. [2] However, the bank was then placed under conservatorship and the new conservator refused to recognize the sale. [3] The court held that under the doctrine of apparent authority, the bank cannot deny the manager's authority to negotiate the sale, as the bank placed the manager in a position of authority to conduct such negotiations. The conservator therefore also cannot revoke a valid contract entered into by an officer with apparent authority.

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    The case involves a dispute over a proposed sale of land owned by a bank. [1] The bank's manager negotiated a sale of the land to plaintiffs for $5.5 million. [2] However, the bank was then placed under conservatorship and the new conservator refused to recognize the sale. [3] The court held that under the doctrine of apparent authority, the bank cannot deny the manager's authority to negotiate the sale, as the bank placed the manager in a position of authority to conduct such negotiations. The conservator therefore also cannot revoke a valid contract entered into by an officer with apparent authority.

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    The case involves a dispute over a proposed sale of land owned by a bank. [1] The bank's manager negotiated a sale of the land to plaintiffs for $5.5 million. [2] However, the bank was then placed under conservatorship and the new conservator refused to recognize the sale. [3] The court held that under the doctrine of apparent authority, the bank cannot deny the manager's authority to negotiate the sale, as the bank placed the manager in a position of authority to conduct such negotiations. The conservator therefore also cannot revoke a valid contract entered into by an officer with apparent authority.

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    First Philippine International Bank vs Court of Appeals

    252 SCRA 259 [GR No. 115849 January 24, 1996]

    Facts: In the course of its banking operations, the defendant Producer Bank of the Philippines acquired 6
    parcels of land with a total area of 101 hectares located at Don Jose, Sta. Rosa, Laguna and covered by TCT No.
    T-106932 to T-106937. The property used to be owned by BYME Investment and Development Corporation
    which had them mortgaged with the bank as collateral for a loan. The plaintiff originals, Demetrio Demetria
    and Jose Janolo wanted to purchase the property and thus initiated negotiations for that purpose. In the early
    part of August 1987 said plaintiffs, upon the suggestion of BYME investment’s legal counsel, Fajardo met with
    defendant Mercurio Rivera, manager of the property management department of the defendant bank. The
    meeting was held in pursuant to plaintiffs’ plan to buy the property. After the meeting, plaintiff Janolo,
    following the advice of defendant Rivera made a formal purchase offer to the Bank through a letter dated
    August 30,1987. Negotiations took place and an offer price was fixed at P5.5million. During the course of the
    negotiations, the defendant bank was placed under conservatorship and a new conservator was appointed to
    which the name has been refused to recognize. A derivative suit has been filed against Rivera for the damages
    suffered from the alleged perfect contract of sale involving the 6 parcels of land.

    Issue: Whether or not a derivative suit may lie involving the bank and its stockholders.

    Held: No. An individual stockholder is permitted to institute a derivative suit on behalf of the corporation
    wherein he hold stock in order to protect or vindicate corporate rights, whenever the officials of the
    corporation refuse to sue, or are the ones, to be sued or hold the control of the corporation. In such actions, the
    suing stockholder is regarded as a nominal party with the corporation as the real party in interest.

    In the face of the damaging admissions taken from the complaint in the second case, petitioners, quite
    strangely, sought to deny that the second case was a derivative suit, reasoning that it was brought not by the
    minority shareholders, but by Henry Co. etal. who not only hold or control over 80% of the outstanding capital
    stock, but also constitute the majority in the board of directors of petitioners bank. That being so, then they
    really represent the bank, so whether they sued derivatively or directly, there is undeniably an identity of
    interest/entity represented.

    In addition to the many cases, where the corporate fiction has been regarded, we now add the instant case, and
    declare herewith that the corporate veil cannot be used to shield an otherwise blatant violation of the
    prohibition against forum shopping. Shareholders, whether suing as the majority in direct actions or as the
    minority in a derivative suit, cannot be allowed to trifle with court processes particularly where, as in this case,
    the corporation itself has not been remiss in vigorously prosecuting or defending corporate causes and in using
    and applying remedies available to it. To rule otherwise would be to encourage corporate litigants to use their
    shareholders as fronts to circumvent the stringent rules against forum shopping.

    From the facts, the official bank price, at any rate, the bank placed its official, Rivera is a position of authority to
    accept offers to buy and negotiate the sale by having the offer officially acted upon by the bank. The bank
    cannot turn around and say, as it now does, that what Rivera states as the bank’s action on the matter is not in
    fact so. It is a familiar doctrine, the doctrine of ostensible authority, that if a corporation on knowingly permits
    one of its officers, or any other agent, to do acts within the scope of apparent authority, and thus holds him out
    to the public as possessing power to do those acts, the corporation will, as against any one who has in good
    faith dealt with the corporation through such agent, he estopped from denying his authority.

    A bank is liable for wrongful acts of its officers done in the interest of the bank or in he course of dealings of the
    officers in their representative capacity but not for acts outside the scope of their authority. A bank holding out
    its officers and agents as worthy of confidence will not be permitted to profit by the frauds they my thus be
    enabled to perpetrate in the apparent scope of their employment; nor will it be permitted to shrink its
    responsibility for such fraud even through no benefit may accrue to the bank therefrom. Accordingly, a banking
    corporation is liable to innocent third persons where the representation is made in the course of its business
    by an agent acting within the general scope of its authority even though, in the particular case, the agent is
    secretly abusing his authority and attempting to perpetrate fraud upon his principal or some other person, for
    his own ultimate benefit.

    Section 28-A of BP 68 merely gives the conservator power to revoke contracts that are, under existing law,
    deemed not to be effective – i.e void, voidable, unenforceable or rescissible. Hence, the conservator merely
    takes the place of a bank’s board of directors. What the said board cannot do – such as repudiating a contract
    validly entered into under the doctrine of implied authority – the conservator cannot do either.
    Whether or not a Bank’s Conservator may revoke contract entered into by Officer of the Bank with apparent
    authority.

    No. From the facts, the bank placed its official, Rivera in a position of authority to accept offers to buy and
    negotiate the sale by having the offer officially acted upon by the bank. The bank cannot turn around and say,
    as it now does, that what Rivera states as the bank’s action on the matter is not in fact so. It is a familiar
    doctrine, the doctrine of ostensible authority, that if a corporation on knowingly permits one of its officers, or
    any other agent, to do acts within the scope of apparent authority, and thus holds him out to the public as
    possessing power to do those acts, the corporation will, as against anyone who has in good faith dealt with the
    corporation through such agent, he estopped from denying his authority.

    Section 28-A of BP 68 merely gives the conservator power to revoke contracts that are, under existing law,
    deemed not to be effective – i.e void, voidable, unenforceable or rescissible. Hence, the conservator merely
    takes the place of a bank’s board of directors. What the said board cannot do – such as repudiating a contract
    validly entered into under the doctrine of implied authority – the conservator cannot do either.

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