Garcia Rudon v. San Juan Light & Transit Co.

Rodey, Judge,

filed the following opinion:

The plaintiffs bring this action against the defendant for, as they allege, negligently causing the death of their father, who, as they say, was fifty-nine years of age. He was killed by being run over by one of the street cars of the defendant in thé city of San Juan, on December 3d, 1908.

*516The defendant demurs on the ground that the plaintiffs are presumably each of legal age, and do not allege that they had any pecuniary interest in the life of the deceased, and because each of the plaintiffs, being of age, are presumably self-supporting, and not…