Breaux v. Decuir

ELLIS, Judge.

This is a suit for $148.45 against the defendant for groceries allegedly sold to him by plaintiff between December 16, 1948 and April 1st, 1949. The defendant denied the allegations of the petition and on the trial of the case, when placed on the stand under cross examination, denied that he had purchased any groceries from the plaintiff, and was then asked if his wife had purchased any groceries, to which question defendant’s counsel objected on the ground that “it is an enlargement of the pleadings and results in a changing of the cause of action and it is an attempt to…