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Alonto vs. Workmen's Compensation Ccommission

MACAPASIR ALONTO, petitioner, vs. THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (Dept. of Public Highways), respondents./CONCEPCION VDA. DE GASCON, petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILW

G.R. No. L-42776/G.R. No. L-42280/G.R. No. L-43230/G.R. No. L-43843/G.R. No. L-43484/G.R. No. L-4342 | 1978-08-31

D E C I S I O N

TEEHANKEE, J:

The twelve workmen's compensation cases at bar are jointly determined in this consolidated decision on the basis of established and controlling jurisprudence and doctrines.

1. In L-42776, respondent commission affirmed the referee's order dismissing the claim of claimant-petitioner MACAPASIR ALONTO for disability compensation for his affliction of pulmonary tuberculosis moderately advanced an rheumatoid arthritis, as certified by the report of his attending physician Dr. Mangontra Macarambon, incurred during the course of his employment in the Bureau of Public Highways as capataz in Marawi City. The...