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Basilia Berdin Vda. De Consuegra vs. GSIS 37 SCRA 316

BASILIA BERDIN VDA. DE CONSUEGRA; JULIANA, PACITA, MARIA LOURDES, JOSE, JR., RODRIGO, LINEDA, and LUIS, all surnamed CONSUEGRA, petitioners-appellants, vs. GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM, COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, HIGHWAY DISTRICT ENGINEER OF

G.R. No. L-28093 | 1971-01-30

EN BANC

D E C I S I O N 

ZALDIVAR, J: 

Appeal on purely questions of law from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Surigao del Norte, dated March 7, 1967, in its Special Proceeding No. 1720. 

The pertinent facts, culled from the stipulation of facts submitted by the parties, are the following: 

The late Jose Consuegra, at the time of his death, was employed as a shop foreman of the office of the District Engineer in the province of Surigao-del Norte. In his lifetime, Consuegra contracted two marriages, the first with herein respondent Rosario Diaz, solemnized in the parish church of San Nicolas de Tolentino,...