McWilliams v. Elder

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment condemning her to pay the sum of one thousand and sixty-three 62-100 dollars to the plaintiff, subject to a credit of one hundred and sixty-two 96-100 dollars.

Plaintiff answered defendant’s petition for an appeal, and asked for an amendment increasing the judgment to the amount claimed in his petition. Plaintiff, in his petition addressed to the District Court for a judgment, sets out that, shortly after the death of defendant’s husband, Moses Elder, in 1897, the defendant employed him to manage the business…