Espino v. Martinez
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
1. In Porto Rieo an action for injuries causing death survives. 2. The wife and heirs of deceased cannot now maintain an action for damages against the person who killed deceased before the American invasion of Porto Rico, defendant not having been tried or convicted of the crime.
1Opinion of the Court
Bodey, Jndge,
delivered the following opinion:
This is an action at law by the plaintiffs, who allege themselves to he Porto Bicans and resident in the island, and that they are the wife and minor children, respectively, of the late Eraneisco Castrello, the two said minors suing by their said mother. The defendant is alleged to he a subject of the King *60of Spain and resident in Porto Rico. The snit is to recover damages in the snm of $50,000 for the alleged unlawful, wrongful, wanton, and malicious hilling of the husband and father of the plaintiffs by the defendant through assaulting and…
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