Joublanc v. Daunoy
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. The plaintiff sues to recover three thousand seven hundred dollars from the defendant which he alleges is the balance due him of the price of building three houses for her, in pursuance of an agreement between them.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. The plaintiff sues to recover three thousand seven hundred dollars from the defendant which he alleges is the balance due him of the price of building three houses for her, in pursuance of an agreement between them. The plaintiff alleges that he contracted with Miss Daunoy to build her three houses in the city of New-Orleans, for the sum of nine thousand and seventy-five dollars; that he went on to perform faithfully his work until near the close, when he was ill-treated and discharged by the defendant; that the work which he actually done…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
This is a suit to recover from the defendant the value of certain labor done and materials furnished in building several houses, which the plaintiff undertook to construct and finish for prices fixed by contracts which are alleged to *659have been violated by the defendant in forbiding the undertaker to proceed to complete the works agreed on, after he progressed in the undertaking nearly to its completion, &c. The court below gave judgment for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appealed.
where a person contracts houses for a cerní n price payviádsf1 amfd diTbef¿?eSthe m™ edifices, and it is…
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