Commonwealth v. Superior Court of Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 14,1967

On September 24, 1963 the intervener Pedro Ángel Torres was owner of a motor vehicle, a GMC Panel Delivery, license No. C-336-371; since 1961 the vehicle had been leased by the intervener to Nicolás Ortiz to be used in the bakery business which since 1958 was owned by said Nicolás Ortiz in the city of Coamo. According to the terms of the lease contract, Ortiz had agreed to appoint, pay and supervise the driver of the motor vehicle object of the lease. Since 1958, that is, since the beginning of his bakery business, the lessee Ortiz appointed as driver of the…