Bustelo v. Industrial Commission

Mr. Justice Hernández Matos

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Juan Ortega Burgos, a workman engaged in cleaning and tending gardens in the metropolitan zone, filed on January 28, 1959 a sworn claim for compensation with the Industrial Commission of Puerto Rico alleging, briefly, that on the 24th day of that month he sustained a labor accident in Santurce while working as a gardener for employer Manuel A. Bus-telo; that he injured himself with the machete; that he earned in that employment $12 a month; that he was the only workman employed by his employer and that the latter was not insured at…