Ruiz de Torres v. Industrial Commission of Puerto Rico

Me. Justice Todd, Jr.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Antonio Torres Jiménez, overseer of the Plata Sugar Co., *224died on October 14, 1937, according to a certificate of Dr. Néstor Cardona, from “septicemia, pyemia, erysipelas, em-pyemia on the left side, jaundice, hemoglobinuria.” His widow María C. Ruiz de Torres, alleging that the erysipelas from which her husband suffered had been caused by an industrial accident that he had when his right ear was cut by a cane leaf while he was making an inspection tour on horseback, on the 7th of the same month, of one of the plantations, submitted a…