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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

No. 96 C 1158
James C. Boyle and Judith Boyle Versus Board of Supervisors, Louisiana State University ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT, PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, STATE OF LOUISIANA

CLAIBORNE, Justice ad hoc*

On March 8, 1989, Judith Boyle, a 40-year-old student, was injured when she tripped and fell on a sidewalk of Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College (LSU) in Baton Rouge. She sued the Board of Supervisors of LSU contending her injuries were caused by a defective sidewalk. Her husband, James Boyle, joined in the suit seeking damages for loss of consortium. FACTS Having just finished a mid-term exam, Judith Boyle was crossing the LSU campus en route from the Student Union to the parking lot of Kirby Smith dormitory where her car was parked. Upon exiting the Union at approximately 4:00, she walked toward Tower Drive in a northeasterly direction. She then crossed Tower Drive and stepped onto the sidewalk on Tower Drive in front of David Boyd Hall. As she walked by Boyd Hall, Mrs. Boyle suddenly fell forward and landed on the pavement of the

Judge Ian W. Claiborne, 18th Judicial District Court, and Judge Graydon K. Kitchens, Jr., 26th Judicial District Court, participating as associate justices ad hoc in place of Justice Jack C. Watson and Justice E. Joseph Bleich. Calogero, C.J., not on panel. Rule IV, Part 2,

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