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SHIPP v. CITY OF ALEXANDRIA

No. 7743.

392 So.2d 1078 (1980)

Edgar M. SHIPP et ux, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF ALEXANDRIA et al, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

July 22, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gist, Methvin, Hughes & Munsterman, H. B. Gist, III, Alexandria, for defendant-appellant.

Stephen E. Everett, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellee.

Kennedy & Yeager, Ralph W. Kennedy, Alexandria, for defendant-appellee.

Before FORET, STOKER and LABORDE, JJ.

LABORDE, Judge.

Defendant appeals from the trial court's decision awarding plaintiff $5,000 in general damages and $864.50 in special damages. Plaintiff, Mrs. Edgar M. Shipp, had sustained a severely sprained left ankle when she stepped off an eleven inch curb onto De Soto Street which was a street built and maintained by defendant in its capacity as the municipal government of the city of Alexandria. The reason for her...

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