Harrelson v. Raphael

JANVIER, Judge.

This suit results from a disagreement over the amount of the estimate for which the plaintiff, I. J. Harrelson, did certain work on a double residence building owned by the defendant, Ben Raphael.

In March, 1957, Raphael obtained from Harrelson, a contractor, an estimate of the cost of installing sheetrock on the interior of the building and painting the ceilings and walls of the interior and painting the exterior. Harrelson prepared the estimate in duplicate in pencil on sheets of yellow tablet paper and gave one to Raphael, keeping the other for himself. At the request of…