Pratts v. Superior Court of Puerto Rico

A twelve-and-a-half-year-old minor, employed by the insured employer Angel Luis Arroyo, sustained an accident while cutting sugarcane on the basis of piece rate as a result of which the distal phalanx of his left thumb was amputated. For that reason he initiated a civil ordinary action against *356Arroyo claiming damages on the ground that “the responsibility . . . [which] arises from the illegal labor-management relation which existed between defendant and the injured minor.”

A motion for dismissal was presented against the claim for lack of jurisdiction since, a labor accident being involved,…