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San Valentin, Florencia B. vs. Employees' Compensation Commission, et al.

FLORENCIA B. SAN VALENTIN, petitioner, vs. EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION and GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM, respondents.

G.R. No. L-56909 G.R. No. L-56909 | 1982-11-02

D E C I S I O N


DE CASTRO, J.:

Petition for review on certiorari of the decision of the Employees Compensation Commission.

The late Delfin San Valentin, husband of petitioner, entered the government service in 1951 as a laborer in the Bureau of Plant Industry's Economic Garden in Los Baños, Laguna. After twenty years, he was promoted to the post of nursery farm aide. The deceased was assigned in the Plant Propagation Project where he was tasked with cultivation, propagation and caring of varieties of plants in the Bureau.

Sometime in 1979, the deceased noticed some symptoms of ill-health, such as discharging urine deep yellow...