Han v. Favrot & Shane Properties

DUFRESNE, Judge.

The only issue in this case is whether an owner-lessor of immovable property is liable to a lessee’s invitee, who is injured through the negligence of an independent contractor working on the premises. Faye Han, plaintiff-appellant, alleges that she was injured when she tripped on some hot tar spilled by a roofer in the courtyard of an apartment building owned by Vintage Investments, defendant-appellee. A jury found no liability on the part of Vintage, and for the following reasons, we affirm that verdict.

Faye Han testified that on a November afternoon she went, for the first…