Duos v. Ketteringham

This is a suit for the balance which plaintiff claims is due him by the defendant on an alleged verbal contract which is substantially set out by him as follows in his petition:

On a certain day and date which he does not specifically remember, but which was in August, 1945, he and the defendant entered into a contract for the purchase by the defendant of sweet potatoes, delivered at his canning factory in Ville Platte, at the price and sum of $1.80 per one hundred pounds and, in addition, defendant was to pay the sum of ten cents per hundred pounds as hauling charges. The terms of payment…