Knight v. Travelers Ins. Co.

This is a suit arising out of personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff when she fell in the store of Ourso Company, located on the Plank Road near the city of Baton Rouge.

The petition shows that the department store of Ourso Company faces east on the Plank Road and that the dry goods department of said store and the grocery department are not on the same level, that there is a drop of some 81/4 inches from the dry goods department to the grocery department; that to take care of this difference in floor level there is a step on the grocery department side which is 2 1/2 inches from the…