Mega Transport, Inc. v. Kieffer

GOTHARD, Judge.

This action is entitled a suit on open account. From judgment in favor of the plaintiff, the defendant appeals.

Mega Transport, Inc. and Harold Kieffer Trucking were both in the trucking business, although the pleadings and testimony were not precise as to the services each performed and how the businesses differed, if at all. According to the testimony of Melvin Theriot, president of Mega, he had leased a large lot on Tchoupitoulas Street, where he stored his tractors for pulling trailers (“truck tractors”). Harold Kieffer and his son Harold Kieffer, III operated Harold Kieffer…