Labarre v. City of New Orleans

*459The opinion of the court was delivered by

Blanchard, J.

One night in the winter of 1898 plaintiff was walking along Marais street in the City of New Orleans when she fell, and suffered from the fall bodily injuries.

She brought this suit to recover damages.

She alleges the fall was occasioned by a serious and dangerous unevenness in the sidewalk, a “great depression” as her petition styles it, and that by reason of want of light and her lack of knowledge of the locality she suddenly stepped off the higher plane of the sidewalk down on to the lower level and was pitched violently forward, fell,…