Picard v. Waggoner

Griffith, O. J.

The declaration alleges that appellant, the defendant in the trial court, was the owner of a property on Kuhn Street between East Howard Avenue and East Beach Street in Biloxi, and that appellee, the plaintiff was a guest of the defendant, and that said defendant “negligently allowed an open vent to a sewer approximately six inches in diameter to remain open and unprotected among some grass and weeds on her property and the plaintiff ... at or about 9:15 P.M. on the night of August 30, 1945 stepped onto this open vent to the sewer and received painful and lasting damages . . .…