JONES v. CITY OF BATON ROUGE, ETC.

No. 66480.

388 So.2d 737 (1980)

Leroy JONES et ux. v. The CITY OF BATON ROUGE-PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter G. Monsour, Jr., Parish Atty., Frank J. Gremillion, J. Dawson Gasquet, Asst. Parish Attys., for defendant-applicant.

Joel B. Dickinson, Joel B. Dickinson & Associates, Baton Rouge, for plaintiffs-respondents.


DIXON, Chief Justice.

On a summer morning in 1977, plaintiffs were on their way to a church meeting when Mr. Jones stopped their car so that his wife could mail a letter. While he waited in the car, Mrs. Jones crossed the street to the mailbox at the opposite corner. As she began to return to the car by walking from the sidewalk back into the street, she stepped across the cover of a catch-basin. The cover suddenly gave way beneath her and she fell into the catch...

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