Ramos v. Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority

A young country boy from the Puerto Rican hills suffered serious injuries upon coming in contact with a ground wire hanging from a pole used by the Water Resources Authority for its electric lines in the ward of Indiera Alta of Maricao. He filed a claim for damages imputing negligence to defendant enterprise consisting in that (a) the ground wire hanging down the pole “was weathered, detached from the pole, and away from the place where it was apparently nailed, and that the nails were weathered, deteriorated, and unserviceable; and (b) lack of signs warning the public of the dangerous…