Vázquez v. Industrial Commission
Vázquez v. Industrial Commission
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court.
In this case the Industrial Commission of Puerto Rico rendered a judgment on January 31, 1938, by which it found that the workman Jacinto Caquías, on the date 'on which a certain accident occurred while working, was employed by José Vázquez, that the latter employed more than four workmen and that he was not insured, in violation of the Act. The judgment ends declaring that _ José Vázquez is an employer not insured and ordering the case liquidated and the amount of the liquidation charged to said employer in
In our opinion the petition for review is insufficient because the matter of whether or not the employer ’employed four or more workmen and if José Vázquez was or was not the employer of the injured workman are purely matters of fact which are not reviewable in these proceedings unless the employer has been deprived of the right to adduce proof to overcome that of the workman, but this does not appear from the petition nor from the two judgments of the Commission attached thereto. Although it is alleged that the Commission “did not give any opportunity to present any other defenses according to law,” it is not stated what these, defenses consisted of in order that this court may determine whether or not the denial was erroneous. Other defenses completely immaterial might have been offered, in which case no error of law was made in denying them.
For tbe foregoing reasons, tbe petition for review is denied.
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