A.D SANTOS VS VASQUEZ CASE DIGEST
G.R. No. L-23586 March 20, 1968
A. D. SANTOS, INC., petitioner,
vs.
VENTURA VASQUEZ, respondent.
CORPORATION LAW; ALTER EGO
A. D. SANTOS, INC., petitioner,
vs.
VENTURA VASQUEZ, respondent.
CORPORATION LAW; ALTER EGO
FACTS:
- Respondent Ventura Vasquez was petitioner's taxi driver.
- While driving petitioner's taxicab, he vomitted blood. Aside from his hemoptysis, he suffered back pains, fever and headache.
- He was sent to petitioner company's physician, thereafter, he was admitted at the Quezon Institute.
- He was diagnosed with an ailment of pulmonary tuberculosis, moderately advanced in both lungs.
- He has not resumed work
- Offshoot of the foregoing is respondent's claim filed with the Workmen's Compensation Commission.
Whether or not the claim for compensation can be directed against Amador Santos, not against petitioner
HELD:
- The Court held that AD Santos Inc., is liable.
- Indeed, Amador was at one time, the sole owner and operator of the taxi business that employed Vasquez, which was later transferred to AD Santos Inc. But such testimony should not be allowed to confuse the facts relating to employer-employee relationship, for when the veil of corporate fiction to "confuse legitimate issues," the same should be pierced.