Cole v. Central Contracting Co.

This action was brought by the plaintiff, Miss Bettie Cole, against J. B. Slattery, the Central Contracting Company, a partnership, and the individual members thereof who were Edgar C. Maclay and Henry C. Beck, and the city of Shreveport, to recover damages alleged to have been, sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendants.

Plaintiff alleged, in substance, that the Central Contracting Company in executing a contract entered into between it and J. B. Slattery, had laid or caused to be laid in and across an alley at a point where the alley constituted a part of the sidewalk, an…