Parker v. City of New Orleans

On January 6, 1938, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, the plaintiff, Mrs. Eugenia R. Parker, an old lady 85 years of age, while attempting to walk from the uptown riverside sidewalk on South Carrollton Avenue across Apricot Street, stepped into a hole in the curbing abutting the street. In attempting to extricate her foot from the hole, she tripped over the metal binder or edging of the curbing, which was broken and dislodged from the concrete, and fell into the street sustaining personal injuries. Alleging that the accident was due to the defective condition of the sidewalk curbing on…