Loreau v. Declouet
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT PRESIDING. The plaintiff claims four hundred dollars for building a sugar house, constructing cisterns, coolers, &c. for defendant; and also one hundred and fourteen dollars for work and labor done for the defendant.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT PRESIDING. The plaintiff claims four hundred dollars for building a sugar house, constructing cisterns, coolers, &c. for defendant; and also one hundred and fourteen dollars for work and labor done for the defendant. There was a written agreement between the parties, executed in May, 1829, in which it is stipulated the work should be done and finished by the plaintiff, by the 10th of October, 1829, the defendant furnishing the materials, &c. He alleges he had completed all the work, stipulated, by the time agreed on,…
1Opinion of the CourtPorter, J.
This is an action for work and labor done on the sugar house of the defendant for a stipulated price. The answer avers the work to be defectively executed, by which the defendant has sustained damage to the amount of five hundred dollars. It further alleges that the plaintiff failed to do all the work which he contracted to execute; and that to complete the work left unfinished, and repair that' defectively done, has cost, and will cost, the defendant two hundred and seventy-eight dollars. For these sums judgment in reconvention is demanded. The original sum stipulated was four hundred…
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