Touchet v. Huval

SWIFT, Judge.

The appellees-lessors brought this summary proceeding against appellants-lessees for eviction and collection of $1,150.00 in past due rent. The trial court rendered a judgment evicting the lessees and awarding the lessors $850.00 for accrued rental.1 Appellants contend they owed no rent due to a verbal alteration of the lease contract and that the judgment of eviction is improper because one of the lessees is a co-owner of the leased property.

On February 18, 1976, Stephen Touchet and Mathilda Romero Touchet leased fifty arpents of land in Lafayette Parish to Louis Huval, Jr., and…