ASIAN STEEL CORPORATION V.

WORKSMENS COMPENSATION COMMISSION

G.R. No. L-7636, 27 June 1955

FACTS:
Petition to review the order of the Workmens Compensation Commission approving the award of its
referee in favor of the labourer Ismael Carbajosa, against his employer Asian Steel Corporation.
Carbajosa, employed as apprentice, was injured while workin in said Corporations steel factory in Grace
Park, Manila. Where his two feet were so seriously injured, they had to be amputated. Hospitalization
were paid by the corporation. The referee, having found that the accident arose out of employment,
require the Asian Steel Corporation to indemnify in the total sum of two thousand two hundred forty
pesos and forty centavos (P2246.40) and to pay the costs

ISSUE
Whether or not Carbajosa was given employment at the corporation

HELD
At the time of the occurrence, an employee of the petitioning corporation. It may be stated as a general
rule that an agent, who with authority express, implied, apparent or actual, employs help for the benefit of
his principals business, thereby creates the relationship of employer and employee between such help and
his principal.
In view of the foregoing, and the petitioner not having questioned the amount of compensation, the order
of the Commission, should be, as it is hereby, affirmed with costs.