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FACTS:
Pedro Fragante, a Filipino citizen at the time of his death, applied for a certificate
of public convenience to install and maintain an ice plant in San Juan Rizal. His
intestate estate is financially capable of maintaining the proposed service. The
Public Service Commission issued a certificate of public convenience to Intestate
Estate of the deceased, authorizing said Intestate Estate through its special or
Judicial Administrator, appointed by the proper court of competent jurisdiction,
to maintain and operate the said plant. Petitioner claims that the granting of
certificate applied to the estate is a contravention of law.
HELD:
Supreme Court is of the opinion that for the purposes of the prosecution of said
case No. 4572 of the Public Service Commission to its final conclusion, both the
personality and citizenship of Pedro O. Fragrante must be deemed extended,
within the meaning and intent of the Public Service Act, as amended, in
harmony with the constitution: it is so adjudged and decreed.