Arzola Maldonado v. Savings & Loan Fund Ass'n of the Insular Government

In 1937 Ernesto Arzola Maldonado, an insular policeman, became a member of the Savings and Loan Fund Association of the Employees of the Insular Government of Puerto Rico. He applied for death or physical disability insurance of the second class, as provided by § 20 of Act No. 52, Laws of Puerto Rico, 1921, as amended by Act No. 150, Laws of Puerto Rico, 1937. The corresponding amounts for that insurance were discounted every month from his pay as provided by § 20.

On December 26, 1942, while he was engaged in the performance of his duties as a policeman, he received a bullet wound. Thereafter…