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People Homesite & Housing Corp. vs. Workmen's Compensation Commission 120 Phil. 994

PEOPLE HOMESITE & HOUSING CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and ESTRELLA ALBA TITONG, respondents.

G.R. No. L-18246 | 1964-10-30

D E C I S I O N 


DIZON, J.: 

Petition filed by the People's Homesite & Housing Corporation for the review of the decision of the Workmen's Compensation Commission in RO3-WC Case No. 242 ordering it to pay Estrella Alba Titong the sum of P2,387.84 as compensation for the death of her husband, Cesar Titong, plus P200.00 as burial expenses.
 
It is not denied that Titong was employed as checker by petitioner at a weekly salary of P35.50. In the afternoon of July 10, 1956, while checking the cement that was being loaded on a truck, Titong and one Federico Magalang, also an employee of petitioner, engaged in a heated argument...