Board of Com'rs of Orleans Levee Dist. v. Shushan

ROGERS, Justice.

The Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District sued Abraham L. Shushan, Herbert W. Waguespack, Henry J. Miller, Newman, Harris & Company, Robert J. Newman, and Norvin T. Harris, Jr., to annul a certain contract on the ground that it had been procured by fraud, and to recover the sum of $496,234.48, which plaintiff averred it had been defrauded of as a result of the illegal contract. The petition contains an alternative. demand for the recovery of $360,680.83 as an excessive payment of commissions under the contract, in the event that the charges of fraud set forth in…