Lanier Business Products, Inc. v. Alpha of Louisiana, Inc.

JOHN S. COVINGTON, Judge.

In this suit for breach of lease, plaintiff appeals a judgment in defendant’s favor, dismissing plaintiff’s suit.

The issues on appeal are whether the trial court erred in: (1) finding that plaintiff did not timely accept defendant’s offer to lease; and (2) failing to allow plaintiff to cross-examine as a hostile witness one of its former salesmen.

We affirm.

Plaintiff, Lanier Business Products, Inc. (Lanier), negotiated through one of its salesmen the lease of certain word processing equipment to defendant Alpha of Louisiana, Inc., d/b/a Ault Clinic (Alpha). On April…