Case Digest: Bohol Land Trans Co v. Madanguit, GR No. L-47360, November 28, 1940

  Labor Law | Policy and Definitions

  • Ramon Madanguit, an employee of Bohol Land Transportation Co., was driving their passenger truck when he collided with Ciriaco Dalmao, who was riding a bicycle.
  • Madanguit stopped the truck in front of a house and went to a nearby drug store to wash his hands.
  • Dalmao followed Madanguit into the drug store and fatally stabbed him.
  • Madanguit's heirs filed a compensation claim under Act No. 3428 for compensation for personal injuries arising out of and in the course of employment.
  • CFI-Bohol & CA: Awarded the compensation.
    WoN Madanguit's death arose out of and in the course of his employment, making his heirs eligible for compensation under the law. YES
      ART. 2. Reasons for compensation. — When an employee suffers a personal injury by accident arising out of, and in the course of his employment, or contracts an illness caused directly by the employment or as a result of the nature of said employment, his employer will pay him compensation in the amounts already the persons
      specified below.

      In Pollisco vs. Basilan Lumber Co. , RG No. 39721, this Court, among other things, declared that Pollisco was entitled to compensation despite the fact that the accident occurred after his work and while he was already returning to his house. 

      The case in question is, in our opinion, even stronger and more meritorious than the aforementioned Pollisco case. 

      As can be seen from the proven facts according to the Court of Appeal, Madanguit, the deceased, was the driver of one of the buses of the appellant, Bohol Land Transportation Co., and while driving the car, it collided with the bicycle that Ciriaco was riding. Dalmao; that moments later, almost immediately, Madanguit stopped his car in front of the house of lawyer Celestino Gallares, having received signs from some pedestrians who wanted to take the truck and, taking advantage of this opportunity, he got out of it and headed to the Lourdes Drug Store with the purpose of washing his hands that had gotten dirty while cleaning his car.  Meanwhile, Ciriaco Dalmao arrived and entered the pharmacy and, without further ado, stabbed Madanguit, who died instantly.

      In another matter, Bellosillo vs. In Corpus Juris, p. 673, volume 71, we find the following:
      . . . where the employee is injured while seeking toilet facilities or going to or from a toilet, the injury arises out of the employment and in the course of it . . .

      The Court of Appeals, therefore, did not commit any error in deciding this matter, confirming in all its parts the ruling of the court a quo in favor of Fermina Vda. of Madanguit, the respondent.

      Consequently, it is appropriate, and we declare it, to confirm in all its parts the decision that is the subject of the appeal, with the costs in both instances borne by the appellant. This is how it is ordered.

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