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Arcadio Capinpin, et al. vs. Workmen's Compensation Comm., et al.

ARCADIO CAPINPIN AND CANDIDA M. CAPINPIN, petitioners, vs. THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION, PIATING UY, GREENWOOD SAWMILL, INC., and ECONOMIC INSURANCE CO., INC., respondents.

G.R. No. L-43451 | 1981-02-26

D E C I S I O N


MAKASIAR, J.:

This is a petition to review the decision dated December 24, 1975 of the respondent Commission in RO-2-WCU Case No. 1468, affirming the June 29, 1970 order of the hearing officer of Regional Office No. 2, Department of Labor, which denied petitioner's claim for compensation for lack of merit.

Petitioners are the parents of the deceased, Mario Capinpin, who died on February 15, 1969 while cutting timber in San Mariano, Isabela. Petitioners alleged that at the time of decedent's death, he was employed by the respondent Greenwood Sawmill, Inc. as a timber cutter. He was purportedly in the act of cutting a...