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Snow White Ice Cream & Ice Factory vs. Garcia

SNOW WHITE ICE CREAM & ICE DROP FACTORY and/or JOSE FUTCHIAN CHING (SHOULD BE SO DEE), petitioners, vs. EMILIO GARCIA (Deceased), Subtituted by: JOVITA LOZANO VDA. DE GARCIA, for herself and in behalf of her minor children, RODULFO, ANGELITA, MARIA, EMILI

G.R. No. L-23727 | 1971-11-29

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

The specific legal question raised in this petition for the review of decision of the Workmen's Compensation Commission is new, but not the governing principle decisive of the matter, which is well-settled. It is whether the employer-employee relationship existed between the claimant Emilio Garcia, now deceased, who in his lifetime was an ice drop vendor, now substituted by his heirs, the private respondents, 1 and petitioner Snow White Ice Cream and Ice Drop Factory, Both the hearing officer and the then Associate Commissioner Jose Sanchez of respondent Commission answered the question in the affirmative....