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Samar Mining. Co., vs. WCC, et al.

SAMAR MINING CO., INC., petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION, EMETERIA VDA. DE MENDOZA and TRINIDAD VDA. DE MENDOZA, respondents.

G.R. Nos. L-29938-39 | 1971-03-31

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J:

Appeal from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Commission and its resolution en banc denying the petition of herein petitioner, for the consolidation of two cases filed in two different regional offices for compensation for the death of one and the same person.

As a consequence of the death on April 5, 1967 of Fernando Mendoza, an employee of petitioner at its mining operations in Buug, Zamboanga del Sur, two separate claims for death compensation were filed against petitioner in two different regional offices of respondent Commission. The records, upon examination, show that one was first filed on May...