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Renato Sara, etal. Vs. Cerila Agarrado, etal.

DR. RENATO SARA and/or ROMEO ARA?A, petitioners, vs. CERILA AGARRADO and the NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-73199 | 1988-10-26

D E C I S I O N


FERNAN, C.J.:

Challenged in this petition for certiorari is the jurisdiction of the Labor Tribunal over Case No. LRD-ROXII-006-82, a claim for unpaid commissions and reimbursement of certain sums of money filed by herein private respondent Cerila Agarrado against herein petitioners Dr. Renato Sara and Romeo Araña.

Private respondent Cerila Agarrado was an attendant in the clinic of petitioner Dr. Renato Sara. She quit her job in 1973.

Four years later, petitioners Dr. Sara and Romeo Araña, being owners of a rice mill and having begun to engage in the buy and sell of palay and rice, entered into a verbal...