Pepper v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

The plaintiff sues for damages in the sum of ⅜10,000, for injuries alleged to have been sustained as a result of his having fallen while walking on the sidewalk in the 700 block on Cane street, in the town of Bossier City, La.

It is alleged in the petition that the defendant town of Bossier City granted a permit to the defendant Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, Inc., to construct a subway for the purpose of laying its conduits under its streets and sidewalks; that it was necessary, in the execution of the work, to dig a ditch along and through the dirt sidewalk in the 700 block on…