Hunter Canal Co. v. Robertson's Heirs
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Seventeenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Vermilion; Minos Thomas Gordy, Jr., Judge. Action by the Hunter Canal Company, Limited, against the heirs of John P. Robertson. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
This suit is upon a contract entered into by the plaintiff with John P. Robertson for the irrigation of the latter’s rice crop of the year 1901. John P. Robertson died after the institution, but before the trial, of the suit, and the defendants are his heirs. Defendants deny that plaintiff furnished water in time or in quantity sufficient, and claim damages in reconvention to an amount largely exceeding the amount of rent claimed by plaintiff.
The case was very clearly and very fully argued at the bar, and the five briefs press upon the attention of the court every salient point in the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Peniston v. SomersSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1860
- Taylor v. Almanda & Bro.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1897
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