MacDonnell v. Dreyfous
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Ered D. King, Judge. Suit by Erancis J. MacDonnell against Jules S. Dreyfous. Erom judgment dismissing the suit, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvostx, J.
Defendant, desiring to build an apartment house, employed plaintiff as architect. Defendant states that he and plaintiff, in their conversations as to what the house should cost, had in mind the Arcadia apartment house of two floors and a basement which had just been completed at an expense of $17,000; that they thought it would be well to have an additional floor, and estimated that this would add $10,000 to the cost, and that there would be about $3,000 more expense in architect’s commissions and extras, making a total of $30,000; that later they concluded to have still another floor, which…
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