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Cresencia Vda. De Eustaquio vs. Workmen's Compensation Commission, et al.

CRESENCIA VDA. DE EUSTAQUIO, petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and DANILO DE GUIA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-42371 | 1980-02-12

D E C I S I O N


MAKASIAR, J.:

This petition for certiorari (pp. 12-18, rec.) seeks to set aside the December 15, 1975 decision of the Workmen's Compensation Commission (Annex E, pp. 30-32, rec.), which reversed the April 23, 1974 Award of the Acting Referee of Regional Office No. IV, Department of Labor, in RO4-WC Case No 130347, granting death compensation benefits and burial expenses to claimant Cresencia Vda. de Eustaquio, herein petitioner.

It appears that petitioner and the deceased Rafael Eustaquio were married in the Roman Catholic Church of Taguig, Rizal on January 11, 1959. They begot six children, all minors and unmarried. In...