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CATALINA V. VDA. DE LABUCA vs. WORKMENS COMPENSATION COMMISSION

CATALINA V. VDA. DE LABUCA, petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (Bureau of Public Schools), respondents.

G.R. No. L-44653 | 1977-05-31

MARTIN, J.:

Petition for review 1 of the decision of the Workmen's Compensation Commission which denied the grant of death compensation benefits to petitioner under the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act.

Petitioner, Catalina V. Vda. de Labuca, filed the present petition in her capacity as the widow of the late Domingo Labuca who has been employed by respondent Bureau of Public Schools as a public schoolteacher since 1938 up to the time of his death on March 6, 1973. It was during his employment that he was afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis and which illness eventually led to his death. After his death, his widow, the...