Lawson v. D. H. Holmes Co.

McCALEB, Judge.

The plaintiffs, Arthur Lawson, George Lawson, Mrs. William Fournier, Mrs. B. J. Gill, Mrs. J. H. Whité and Mrs. A. PI. Jelks, are the surviving major children of Mrs. George Lawson, who died on February 27, 1939, as a consequence of a fall she sustained on February 6, 1939, while she was walking out of the Dauphine Street exit of the department store owned and operated by D. H. Holmes Company, Ltd., in the City of New Orleans. They have brought this suit for damages for the death of their mother charging that the fall she suffered, which subsequently caused her death, is…