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Tan Lim Te Vs. Workmen's Compensation Commissioner, Et Al. 104 Phil 522

TAN LIM TE, petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSIONER, SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION, PROVINCIAL SHERIFF OF PAMPANGA, RUFINA REYES DE MENDIOLA, for herself and in behalf of her minor children, FERMIN, RAMON, JUAN, NESTOR, JOSE, NITA and ROMMIE, all surnamed MENDIOLA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-12324 | 1958-08-30

D E C I S I O N


FELIX, J.:

Juan Mendiola was employed by Francisco Tan Lim Te as a truck driver in the latter's rice mill located at Angeles, Pampanga. On January 28, 1952, while Mendiola was sitting atop several sacks of palay loaded in a jeep-trailer belonging to his employer which, at the time, was being driven by another Chinaman, to prevent said sacks from falling, the vehicle happened to pass on a roadhole causing Mendiola to be forcibly thrown to the ground. A radiography of the victim taken on the day of the accident revealed that he sustained the following injuries: "Dislocation of the patella, 1 left; simple fracture pubis,...