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ZERANGUE v. DELTA TOWERS, LTD.

No. 86-3357.

820 F.2d 130 (1987)

Susan ZERANGUE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DELTA TOWERS, LTD., Southern Host Hotels, Inc., and ABC Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 25, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Kerrigan, Jr., Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, David P. Gontar, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants.

Jack P. Jeffries, John G. Fellinger, Lord, Day & Lord, New York City, amicus curiae, for American Hotel & Motel.

Gerald E. Meunier, Kierr, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon & Lewis, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before THORNBERRY, GEE and REAVLEY, Circuit Judges.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

Susan Zerangue has recovered $228,000 against the owner and the operator of the Ramada Hotel in New Orleans for damages suffered in a protracted rape ordeal. Defendants' liability is based upon evidence, and a jury verdict, of negligent security arrangements and of an unreasonably dangerous hotel lobby exit which gave Zerangue no warning that when she went out onto Claiborne Street at 3:00 a.m. she would then find the hotel doors locked against...

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