López Figueroa v. Valdés

Mr. Justice Hernández Matos

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Víctor López Figueroa, a laborer, filed a complaint in the Superior Court, San Juan Part, against his employer Alfonso Valdés in which he stated in synthesis that: He worked as caretaker or watchman of a mansion belonging to Valdés located on Taft St., Santurce, from 1954 to 1961, “day and night, including Sundays and holidays, seven days a week, thirty days a month during the 365 days of the year, except for the hours he slept, washed and ate,” receiving a monthly pay of $60;’ that the house in his care was never occupied by a…