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Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Vs. Vicente Tupas, Et Al. 101 Phil 667

FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. VICENTE TUPAS and WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-10150 | 1957-05-29

D E C I S I O N


MONTEMAYOR, J.:

This is an appeal by certiorari by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, later referred to as the Firestone Co., from the decision of the Workmen's Compensation Commissioner on a claim by Vicente Tupas, appellant's former employee, ordering appellant company to pay Tupas the amount of P464.53 for alleged partial permanent disability suffered by him.

The record shows the following facts: On March 12, 1948, while Tupas, under the employ of the Firestone Co., was unloading boxes from the latter's truck, one of the boxes rolled down from the pile and caused injury to his head. He was sent to the Riverview...