CIACCIO, Judge.
The City of New Orleans appeals a judgment awarding plaintiff compensatory damages for a broken leg suffered when she "tripped" on an elevated portion of a city sidewalk. We reverse.
Plaintiff, a forty year old woman, suffers from a congenital bone condition called osteogenisis imperfecta (brittle bone disease). Since she was six years old she has traveled about in a wheelchair. On an afternoon in late October she was traveling on the sidewalk...
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