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Pacoli vs. RP

BRUNO B. PACOLI, representing AUREA PACOLI CAGURING (deceased), petitioner, vs. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (Bureau of Public Schools), respondents.

G.R. No. L-44625 | 1979-07-30

D E C I S I O N

MAKASIAR, J:

This is a petition for certiorari filed by Bruno Pacoli as grandfather of the minor children of deceased Aurea Pacoli Caguring, for review of the decision of the Workmen's Compensation Commission in R09-WC-Case No. 13924, reversing the outright award of WCC Regional Office No. 9.

The deceased Aurea Pacoli Caguring had her first assignment as public school teacher at Barrio Mancares, Tarangnan, School District, Tarangnan, Samar, on August 27, 1962. From Catbalogan, Samar, where the deceased was residing, to her station at Barrio Mancares, she had to negotiate the distance by small motorized bancas, for no...