San Antonio v. Jiménez

Mr. Justice Todd, Jr.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The District Court of San Juan sustained a complaint for damages in this case and adjudged the defendants to pay the plaintiff $1,250 as compensation. Both parties have appealed and the appeals have been consolidated.

Plaintiff’s appeal is limited to challenging the insufficiency of the sum awarded. We shall decide in the first place defendants’ appeal wherein they allege that the lower court erred (1) in holding that the proximate cause of the accident suffered by the plaintiff was the omission on the part of defendants’ employee to…