Pesant v. Heartt

In this appeal, two suits arc consolidated. The first is for four months’ rent, at $100 per month, in which defendant sets up a plea in reconvention for repairs, amounting to $125, and $788 for loss and damages resulting, as alleged, from the loss of a subtenant, who left the part of the premises rented to him on account of its untenantable condition.

We can consider only the appeal on the reconventional demand; plaintiff’s claim being for less than five hundred dollars. 3 R. 387; 10 438; UR. 12; C An. 579.

An examination of the evidence does not convince us that the judge a quo erred in…