Gearheart v. Burress

Mr. Justice Pérez Pimentel

delivered the opinion of the Court.

*55Patricia Joyce, a native of Ohio, came to Puerto Rico on a pleasure trip on October 3, 1958, and remained here until January 15, 1959. She contracted marriage with Norman R. Gearheart in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 13, 1955, and they established their domicile in Auburn, Indiana.

On December 7, 1958, while the said Patricia Joyce Gearheart was horseback riding along one of the streets of Ramey Base in Aguadilla she was run over by an automobile operated by its owner, Eugene Haskell Burress. Patricia as well as the horse belonging to…