Legal Opinion
Robert Laforest v. Autoridad De Las Fuentes Fluviales De Puerto Rico
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 14, 1976No. 75-1195PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.
In the evening of March 11, 1972, while bike riding with friends in Torrimar, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, eleven year old Robert LaForest, Jr., was electrocuted when proceeding through a puddle in the planting strip near a road. The cause of the tragedy was a break in an underground high voltage wire belonging to defendant, a publicly-owned utility. The fractured ends of the wire, lying near the earth’s surface, had electrified the puddle. Instant or near instant death resulted.
The deceased and his family, though residing in Puerto Rico, were citizens of Haiti; and…
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