Thomson v. Cooke
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; George I-I. ThSard, Judge. Action by Mrs. Frances Thomson, wife of John B. Reites, and John B. Reites, to aid, authorize, and assist his said wife, against Mrs. Catherine Cooke, wife of Angelo B. Oetti, and Angelo B. Cetti individually, and to aid, authorize, and assist his said wife. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The evidence in this case leaves no room for doubt that plaintiff fell as she was stepping down from the kitchen door to the concrete pavement in the backyard at her daughter’s house, leased from defendant, and that the cause of her fall was that the one step between the kitchen door and the pavement was not securely fastened to the house, so that it gave way under her foot. And there is nearly as little room for doubt that the insecurity of the step was due to the fact that the sill of the house to which it was nailed was rotten. Plaintiff and her two daughters and her son and son-in-law…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ciaccio v. CarbajalSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1919
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