Salley v. Louviere

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a suit to collect five rent notes, for $55 each, representing the rent of an apartment in New Orleans, from the first of May to the end of September, 1933. The defendant, lessee, pleaded that the lease was canceled by consent of the lessor on the 12th of March, 1933, and that the rent was paid to the end of April, at which time the cancellation went into effect and the lessor, plaintiff in this suit, retook possession of the premises. On the trial of the case the defendant offered oral evidence to prove that it was verbally agreed on the 12th of March, 1933,…