Strahan v. Boudreaux

BOUTALL, Judge.

This is a tort suit brought by the parents of a minor who was injured when shot by a property owner. From a jury verdict in favor of the defendant property owner, the plaintiffs appeal.

The defendant, Pansy Boudreaux, owned and lived alone in a residence on Saddler Road in Marrero. In the back of the property was a two story building containing three apartments which Ms. Boudreaux rented out. A sidewalk to the apartments ran between Ms. Boudreaux’s house and the next property. Early in the morning of December 12, 1981, the plaintiff, Frank Roberts, then fifteen years old, walked…