Cross v. City of Baton Rouge

This is a proceeding by mandamus to compel the defendant to construct a suitable pavement in front of relator’s property on St. Napoleon Street in the City of Baton Rouge. The demand for the writ is based on the alleged grievance that the sidewalk is twelve inches lower than the wall of the street curbing and the elevation of the center of the street, thus causing a depression in the sidewalk, where, after rains, water collects and which interferes with relator’s tenants in getting in and out of the premises.

Relator alleges that if the sidewalk is permitted to remain in the condition it is at…