GHANAEE v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.

No. 95-C-1101.

656 So.2d 303 (1995)

Melanie GHANAEE v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

May 24, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Robert Emmett Kerrigan, Jr. and Darrell Keith Cherry, New Orleans, for defendant-applicant American Airlines, Inc.

Elie, Jones & Gray, James Austin Gray, II, New Orleans, for plaintiff/respondent Melanie Ghanaee.

Before BYRNES, WALTZER and LANDRIEU, JJ.


BYRNES, Judge.

Applicant/Defendant, American Airlines, Inc. invokes the supervisory jurisdiction of this court to review the granting of a mistrial at the request of the respondent which applicant contends was improvidently granted. We grant writs and reverse.

This is a slip and fall case. Respondent was injured while deplaning from one of relator's airplanes.

The leading and most often cited case on the question of mistrials is that rendered by this...

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