Whalon v. Sewerage & Water Board
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; T. C. W. Ellis, Judge. Action by Josephine Whalon against the City of New Orleans and the Sewerage and Water Board. Judgment against the City and in favor of the Board, and the City appeals, and plaintiff, answering the appeal, asks judgment against the Board, and that the amount of judgment be increased.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
The plaintiff sued the city of New Orleans and the sewerage and water board, praying for judgment against them in solido for $25,000 damages, for personal injuries which she alleged she had suffered by stumbling and falling upon a broken and uneven sidewalk.
The pavement had been taken up by the sewerage and water board to lay pipes under the sidewalk. When the pipes were laid and the trench filled, the ground was not properly packed before the brick pavement was relaid. The consequence was that the cement seams between the bricks cracked, and the sidewalk became very uneven and unsafe to walk…
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