Legal Opinion
Fortune v. City of New Orleans
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided August 19, 1993No. 93-CA-0448PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
623 So.2d 701 (1993)
Philip FORTUNE
v.
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
No. 93-CA-0448.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
August 19, 1993.
Louis A. Gerdes, Jr., New Orleans, for Phillip Fortune.
August J. Lanasa, Asst. City Atty., New Orleans, for the City of New Orleans.
LOBRANO, WARD and ARMSTRONG, JJ.
WARD, Judge.
The appellant, Philip Fortune, maintains that he stepped into a hole in a city sidewalk in the 2300 block of Desire Street in the early morning hours of October 30, 1990 while running to catch a bus. Appellant received severe ankle injuries necessitating several surgeries which left him…
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- Fragala v. City of RayvilleLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1990
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3Cited by10 opinions
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- Alexander v. City of Baton RougeLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1999
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