Fontenot v. Raftery

JANVIER, Judge.

Plaintiff, Elizabeth Fontenot, alleges that she was employed by defendant, Charles Raftery, as a domestic servant, and that, while hanging out clothes to dry, she sustained injuries when her left foot and leg broke through a defective plank in an elevated walk, which, she avers, “was provided for and intended to be used” by her “in carrying on the work for which she was employed”.

In the court, a qua, there was judgment maintaining an exception of no cause of action and dismissing the suit, and the matter is now before us on appeal.

The exception is directed at the fact that…