Ocasio v. San Juan Dock Co.

Julio Cirilo Ocasio filed an action for damages in the former District Court of Humacao against the corporation San Juan Dock Co., Inc., alleging that on March 4, 1948, in Vieques, Puerto Rico, an employee of the defendant, while operating a bulldozer, negligently raised and let fall the ram of that mechanical device which landed on the neck of Julio Antonio Cirilo, plaintiff’s son, who was repairing a part of that machine, as a result of which he died instantly. Thereupon the San Juan Dock Co., defendant herein, filed a “Third Party Complaint,” alleging that on March 4, 1948 the San Juan…