Breaux v. J.C. Penney Co., Store

DUFRESNE, Judge.

In this tort lawsuit we are asked only to review the adequacy of damages. On *131March 6, 1990, plaintiff, Dolores Breaux slipped and fell at the J.C. Penney store in the Lakeside Shopping Center in Metairie. Ms. Breaux suffered a non-displaced fracture of her fifth metatorsal bone in her left foot and was treated with a cast and released from East Jefferson General Hospital’s emergency room. She went the next 8 days on crutches or in a wheelchair confined to her home.

Ms. Breaux began follow-up treatment with an orthopedist, Dr. George Byrum, who removed the cast and put her in a…