MORRIS v. ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BD.

No. 89-C-1319.

553 So.2d 427 (1989)

Sidney MORRIS, Individually and on behalf of the Minor, Sakinah Morris v. ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied January 18, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Rieger, Jr. and George M. Pierson, Baton Rouge, for applicant.

Janet Boles, Boles, Boles & Ryan, Baton Rouge, for appellee.


MARCUS, Justice.

On February 14, 1986, Sakinah Morris, a 12-year-old student at the Agnes Bauduit Elementary School in New Orleans, was running to a water fountain in the school yard during recess when she slipped on wet asphalt underneath the fountain. She fell on her right hip. Although she had never suffered hip problems before, she felt pain in her hip shortly after the fall. Two days later, her father brought her to Charity Hospital where a doctor diagnosed muscle...

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