Loucks v. City of Crowley

LE BLANC, Judge.

This is a suit for damages against a municipality by a lady pedestrian who alleges that she sustained certain physical injuries at about 11 o’clock on the morning of November 7, 1936 when she fell violently to the ground after having lost her balance in stepping, inadvertently, with her left foot on a crack and the resulting broken level in one of the concrete slabs of a sidewalk. The defendant municipality is the city of Crowley and it is charged with the violation of its duty, after having had actual knowledge of the defect in the sidewalk, to remove the same and maintain…