Ives v. Carr

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, filed a joint petition against the defendant for damages resulting from a fall by the wife on the sidewalk in front of the service station operated by the defendant on April 20, 1940, located at the corner of Dufrocq and Spain Streets in the City of Baton Rouge. The petition alleges that the defendant "negligently and carelessly permitted water, oil and grease to escape from said parcel of ground, flow across said banquette and remain on said banquette." It is further alleged: "That the said water, oil and grease made extremely slippery that part of said…