Rivera Matos v. Amador

Luis Iván Rivera, a youngster who at the time of the accident which gives rise to the claim filed in this suit was fourteen years of age and in the seventh grade in school, suffered a comminuted fracture of the fourth finger of his left hand when said hand was trapped and caught when a *814truck driver closed the right door of his vehicle. The trial court decided that the sudden closing of the door was the proximate cause of the damage, since without the act which set the door in motion, done through the carelessness and indifference of the driver, the instrument causing the damage would not have…