Caspar v. Prosdame

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The plaintiff, a young man, was the patentee of a collar and cuff rack, used for advertising purposes, by placing the advertisement in the rack.

He contracted in writing with the defendant to place his advertisement in his racks and put them in a stated number of shaving saloons' and billiard halls in the city of New Orleans.

No particular names or places where he was to place his racks containing defendant’s advertisement were mentioned in the contract.

The defendant having refused to pay the balance due to the plaintiff under the terms of the…