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Marinduque vs. Workmen’s

MARINDUQUE IRON MINES AGENTS, INC., petitioner, vs. THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION, THE HEIRS OF PEDRO MAMADOR and GERONIMO MA. COLL, respondents.

G.R. No. L-8110 | 1956-06-30

D E C I S I O N


BENGZON, J.:

The Marinduque Iron Mines Agents Inc. questions by certiorari the order of the Workmen's Compensation Commissioner confirming the referee's award of compensation to the heirs of Pedro Mamador for his accidental death.

Only the right to compensation is disputed; not the amount.

"It appears," says the award, "that on August 23, 1951, at 6:00 a.m. in Bo. Sumangga, Mogpog, Marinduque, the deceased Mamador together with other laborers of the respondent-corporation, (Marinduque Iron Mines Agents Inc.) boarded a truck belonging to the latter, which was then driven by one Procopio Macunat, also...