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Cruz vs. Workmen's Compensation Commission, et al

AMADO T. CRUZ, petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (Dept. of Public Works), respondents./RESURRECCION TINIO, petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (Bureau of Public

G.R. No. L-42739/G.R. No. L-43221/G.R. No. L-43406/G.R. No. L-44599/ | 1978-01-31

D E C I S I O N

TEEHANKEE, J:

The five workmen's compensation cases at bar are jointly decided on a decisive common issue of law. The Court sets aside respondent commission's decisions and reinstates the referees' awards of disability compensation and benefits to the respective petitioners-claimants on the jurisdictional ground of the commission's lack of power and authority to set aside the referees' awards that already were final and executory with the lapse of the reglementary periods for appeal and for relief from judgment.

In L-42739, the referee's decision dated October 31, 1976 granted petitioner-claimant Amado T. Cruz P5,796.28...