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LaFOREST v. AUTORIDAD DE LAS FUENTES FLUVIALES DE P. R.

No. 75-1195.

536 F.2d 443 (1976)

Robert LaFOREST et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. AUTORIDAD de LAS FUENTES FLUVIALES de PUERTO RICO, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 25, 1976.

As Modified June 14, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luis A. Lugo, Jr., Hato Rey, P. R., for defendant-appellant.

Harvey B. Nachman, San Juan, P. R., with whom Nachman, Feldstein & Gelpi, San Juan, P. R., was on brief, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, MATTHES, and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

In the evening of March 11, 1972, while bike riding with friends in Torrimar, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, eleven year old Robert LaForest, Jr., was electrocuted when proceeding through a puddle in the planting strip near a road. The cause of the tragedy was a break in an underground high voltage wire belonging to defendant, a publicly-owned utility. The fractured ends of the wire, lying near the earth's surface, had electrified the puddle...

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