Armstrong v. Bowman

This suit was instituted by Mildred Armstrong, widow and administratrix of Anthony Armstrong, deceased, a ■Negro 21 or 22 years of age, whose occupation was that of a hotel or an apartment house porter; on the 4th of August, 1935, he was found in a dying condition at the bottom of an elevator shaft in the Bowman Apartments, or, as then operated, the Tulane Apartment Hotel, where he was working as a porter, and from these injuries he died; this suit was instituted against John Bowman, now deceased, and represented by an administrator, and his lessee, W. E. Medearis, charging a failure to…