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ROLLINS v. ELKS PLACE PROFESSIONAL PLAZA

No. CA-6230.

505 So.2d 149 (1987)

Avia ROLLINS v. ELKS PLACE PROFESSIONAL PLAZA, et al

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 16, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald J. Leydecker, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Madeleine Fischer, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, C. William Bradley, Jr., Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Dennery, Hunley, Moss & Frilot, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Before GULOTTA, BARRY and WARD, JJ.

WARD, Judge.

On the afternoon of May 20, 1980, the fire alarm sounded in the Elks Place Professional Plaza, an office building in downtown New Orleans. Avia Rollins, who was in the reception room of her doctor's office on the fifteenth floor of the building, was advised by the doctor's staff to evacuate the building by means of a fireproof stairwell adjacent to the doctor's office. By design, the elevators had become inoperable when the fire alarm was pulled, and...

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