Cruz v. Industrial Commission
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment
On the ground that the alleged accident occurred while the laborer was doing the work he was used to perform and that the evidence did not reveal that he was doing an unusual effort, a majority of the members of the Industrial Commission denied the claim for compensation presented by the beneficiary of the deceased Ruperto Cruz Lugo.
*590Cruz Lugo, who was sixty years of age at his death on January 25, 1959, was engaged in the occupation of cane cutter since previous years. The day when the cutting of cane started he commenced his work in his employer’s farm about seven o’clock in the…
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