Saint Amand v. Sucreries de Saint Jean

HamiltoN, Judge,

delivered the following opinion:

The complaint in this case was drawn expressly under §§ 1803 and 1804 of the Civil Code of Porto Rico-, and the demurrer sets up the failure to allege that notice was given the defendant of the accident complained of, in accordance with § 6 of the Employers’ Liability Act, approved March 1, 1902. The sole question raised, therefore, is as to whether the employee injured in the course of his employment, in the case at bar, by the alleged explosion of an oxygen machine for soldering, must proceed under the Employers’ Liability Act, or whether he…