Baggett v. City of Bogalusa

COVINGTON, Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant, City of Bogalusa, from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, Jenny Lee Smith Baggett, for the sum of $32,147.61, as a result of personal injuries the plaintiff sustained in a trip- and-fall case while using the public streets of the defendant municipality. We affirm.

The plaintiff, a 35-year-old woman who was employed as a practical nurse in an internist’s office, tripped and fell over an elevated portion of a public street. This elevation resulted from a patch job repair which had been made by employees of the municipality in patching a…