Miller v. City of New Orleans

JANVIER, Judge.

•At about 7:30 o’clock on the night of October 12, 1931, plaintiff, Natalius Charles Miller, while stepping from the sidewalk to the street at the comer of Howard avenue and Dryades street, caught his foot in the displaced metal edging of the sidewalk curbing and fell, striking his back upon the concrete curbing, the metal edge thereof, or the paving of the street. He sustained most severe injuries.

Charging the city of New Orleans with negligence in failing to maintain the said sidewalk and curbing in good condition, and alleging that such negligence was the proximate cause of…