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Felipe Castillo Vs. Madrigal Shipping Co.

FELIPE CASTILLO AND CRISPIN CANINO, petitioners, vs. MADRIGAL SHIPPING CO., INC., and THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSIONER, respondents.

G.R. No. L-10708 and L-10709 | 1957-11-21

D E C I S I O N


FELIX, J.:

We have before Us two separate petitions to review two independent decisions of the Workmen's Compensation Commissioner rendered in W. C. C. Case No. 9601 and W. C. C. Case No. 9585 instituted by two different claimants represented by the same counsel. As the issues in both cases arose out of identical sets of facts and involve the same question of law, We will pass upon them jointly and thresh the matter in a single decision.

Case G. R. No. L-10708. - Dezon Castillo was a crew-member of the vessel S. S. Regulus who was reported missing when that ill-fated vessel, owned by Madrigal Shipping Co., Inc., sank...