Green v. Orleans Parish School Board

| PLOTKIN, Judge.

Defendant, Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB”), appeals a trial court judgment awarding plaintiffs, Robert and Joyce Green, $15,000 for injuries suffered by their son, Everidge Green, as a result of a slip and fall accident at Beauregard Middle School (now Thurgood Marshall Middle School). For the reasons explained below, we amend and affirm.

Facts

At trial, Everidge testified that he suffered severe injury to his right arm when he slipped and fell on water on the floor of the basement of Beauregard Middle School while walking down the hall, returning from the boy’s bathroom,…