Richard v. Mouton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Blanchard, J.

Plaintiff brought this suit for the purpose of securing a settlement of a partnership in the business of buying and selling cattle which had subsisted between himself and the defendants, Mouton and Trahan. Instead of asking a judgment in his favor for whatever sum the settlement of the partnership affairs might disclose as existing in his favor, he made the mistake of praying judgment against one of the parties for a specific sum.

He made the further mistake of connecting with the suit for settlement of the partnership, a demand for…