Orta v. Porto Rico Railway, Light & Power Co.

This was an action for damages. The appellant, the Porto Rico Railway, Light & Power Company, was charged with negligence causing the death of Fernando Orta Jurado-, *669the son of the plaintiff. The gravamen of the charge of negligence was that the said company had a public service of electric wires in Cagnas which bore a current of high tension, namely, some 4,400' volts; that these wires were not pioperly insulated or otherwise protected from falling; that while the said boy, who was about 13 years old, was going through the streets of Caguas one of the wires broke, fell on the street and…