Quiñones v. Colom

Mr. Chief Justice De Jesús

delivered the opinion of the Court.

A young girl sixteen years old, Carmen Isabel Quiñones, represented by her father with patria potestas, filed this suit to recover the damages which she alleges she sustained upon receiving certain injuries, according to her, through the fault and negligence of the defendant, José Enrique Colom.

On or about December 4, 1947 this defendant, an experienced civil engineer and contractor, was engaged in laying out, for the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Service, a certain pipeline, four inches in diameter, to carry water from the…