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Seven-up Bottling Comp. of the Phil. vs. Vda, de Tero, et al.

SEVEN-UP BOTTLING COMPANY OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. FIDELA LARRIBA VDA. DE TERO, ETC., ET AL., respondents.

G.R. No. L-31995 | 1973-02-12

D E C I S I O N


CONCEPCION, J:

Appeal by certiorari from a decision of the Workmen's Compensation Commission.

Private respondent Fidela Larriba Vda. de Tero is the widow of Agapito Tero, who was cashier, warehouseman and acting officer-in-charge of the warehouse and office of herein petitioner, Seven-Up Bottling Company of the Philippines, in Cagayan de Oro City.

It appears that in the evening of May 2, 1965, Tero was at the Inday Harborside Bar, near the pier of Macabalan, Cagayan de Oro, together with Numeriano Uba and Ernesto Amora, both Seven-Up employees. After a while, one Severino Streegan, an employee of the Coca-Cola Bottling...