Case ID: pr_85/html/0023-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Belaval", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Guillermo Atiles Moréu, Manager, etc., Petitioner, v. Industrial Commission of Puerto Rico et al., Respondents.
    No. 541.
    Decided March 15, 1962.
    
      Donald R. Dexter and Carmen Ana Archeval for petitioner. Respondents did not appear before the court.
    Division composed of Mr. Justice Belaval, as Chief Judge of Division, Mr. Justice Hernández Matos and Mr. Justice Santana Becerra.
   Mr. Justice Belaval

In reversing the determination of the Manager of the State Insurance Fund, the Industrial Commission of Puerto Rico held that the accident occurred while the deceased was performing an act or function inherent in his work, in the course thereof, and was compensable. In his petition for review before this Court, the Manager contends that it was neither alleged nor proved that the deceased, by reason of his work, was exposed to the risk of being struck by lightning any more than the other members of the community.

The act of employment — to pay his employer’s laborers— was inherent in his functions as overseer and developed in the ordinary course of those functions. According to the doctrine announced in the Candelaria case, this is sufficient to make the case compensable. There is no question that the exposition to the risk bears direct relation to the act of employment, regardless of the greater or lesser risk to which the other members of the community might be exposed.

The order appealed from will be affirmed.