Tillman v. Cook

Isabella Tillman, a Negro woman 58 years old, worked every two weeks for a day or a day and a half in washing clothes for the Misses Carrie and Mabel Cook, who are made defendants in this suit in which Isabella Tillman claims $296.25, as damages resulting from an attack by three dogs alleged to be owned by the defendants.

Isabella worked in a shed in the enclosed yard of the home of the defendants at 502 Millaudon Street in New Orleans. The employment had lasted from three to three and a half years when the defendants' dogs made the attack which is the basis of this suit.

The answer admits the…