Fuentes v. New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co.

ChaRltom, Judge,

delivered the following opinion:

At 2 a. m. on the 17th day of May, 1912, the plaintiff’s decedent, being her son, aged eighteen years, with two companions, was fishing from a rowboat which was 8 to 10 feet long, which was anchored close to buoy Eo. 9 in the harbor of San Juan, Porto Pico, the stern of the boat being some 8 or 9 feet distant from said buoy. The night was very dark, but windless and without rain. At about that hour the steamship Vasco, belonging to the Eew York & Porto Rico Steamship Company, was coming from her berth at the marina at San Juan on her way out of…