Cluse v. H & E Equipment Services, Inc.

COOKS, Judge.

|,FACTS

James Patrick Cluse d/b/a J.P. Cluse Construction (Cluse) traded in a 2001 Ka-matsu bulldozer for a 2003 bulldozer with H & E Equipment Services, Inc. (H & E) on October 9, 2006. Cluse’s dealings with H & E began in June 2006 when he brought his 2001 dozer to H & E’s shop in Maurice, Louisiana, to diagnose a problem. At that time Cluse met H & E’s salesman, Brent Broussard (Broussard), and told him the 2001 dozer was in the shop for transmission repair. On July 26, 2006, H & E advised Cluse that it believed the 2001 dozer needed approximately twenty-six thousand dollars…