Bates v. Blitz

FOURNET, Justice.

We issued a writ of certiorari in this 'c'ase in order that we might review the judgment of the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans (13 So.2d 516) reversing the judgment of the lower court dismissing the plaintiff’s suit against her landlord and his insurer and granting her a judgment against them in the sum of $1,580.50 for injuries sustained when she fell while negotiating a platform fronting a room adjacent to hers in the courtyard used in common by all of the tenants of the building.

The defense, as reflected by the brief of the defendants, is that (1) no such…