Paretti v. Suarez

This is a suit by the wife of a tenant of residential property against the owner thereof to recover $10,000 damages for personal injuries she sustained on July 20, 1943 when one of the floor boards of the rear porch of the premises collapsed under her weight. She alleges in substance that she was an occupant of the premises No. 3133, North Villere Street, which her husband had leased from the defendant, Mrs. August Merse, and that the injuries she received were occasioned by the defendant's negligence in failing to keep the property in repair. She further asserts that she sustained a severe…