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Mari Cristina Fertilizer Corp. vs. Workmen's Compensation Commission, et al.

MARIA CRISTINA FERTILIZER CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and EPIFANIA VDA. DE CASTILLO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-29998 | 1974-10-21

D E C I S I O N

MAKALINTAL, J:

This is a petition for review of the decision of the Workmen's Compensation Commission dated July 24, 1968, awarding compensation benefits to the claimants, and of the resolution of the Commission en banc dated September 24, 1968, denying the motion for reconsideration.

The late Alfonso Castillo was a laboratory technician in the fertilizer plant of the Maria Cristina Fertilizer Corporation with a monthly salary of P175.00 at the time of his death. He started working in said plant as a laboratory helper in 1953 when it was still owned by the National Power Corporation. Inside the laboratory where he worked...