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Ruling: Beit din established that it is pl who is obligated to pay the phone company, as the agreement was made and signed between them. However, def obtained the phones from pl with meshicha, by physically acquiring the objects in a manner that made him obligated to pay pl for their price. Both litigants agree that the deal was done as a favor by pl for def. Therefore, we view the deal between pl and def as an exact duplicate of the agreement between pl and the phone company. In this way pl neither gains nor loses from his agreement to, in effect (not by law), be the middleman between def and the phone company. It does not make a difference if def was aware of all of the conditions of the sale. If he had wanted to, he could have found out, certainly considering that he was present when the deal was being finalized.
Thus, def obligated himself to pay not only for the calls he made but also for the phones themselves should there be a need to pay for them. Since this payment is one of an accepted obligation, not a damage payment, it is not relevant whether or not def knew that his stopping to use the phones would cause a need to pay for the phones.
That being said, part of the 6,500 shekels charge was a result of lack of payment that resulted from pl’s delay in acting on the information that def was no longer using the phones. Pl is responsible for those charges.
Since beit din does not have access to the information that would enable it to determine the equitable breakup of those charges, beit din will estimate based on its authority to employ p’shara (compromise) so that the matter can be closed (see Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 12:5). Beit din decided that def has to pay two thirds of the total charges.

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