Bradley v. Yancy

DREW, Judge.

This is a suit seeking damages for personal injuries brought by a colored woman against the landlord of her husband. The plaintiff’s claim grows out of an alleged accident wherein she caught her left ankle on a piece of loose screen in the back door as she was going through the said door, and fell down the back steps, sustaining certain alleged injuries. She assigns as the basis of a cause of action the negligence of the defendant in failing to keep the back screen door in repair.

Defendant filed an exception of no cause and no right of action, which was argued in the trial court.…