Delinonico v. Trizzinie
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Western Djst. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This is an action for work and. labor, performed by the plaintiffs, for tbe defendant. They allege that they all three worked as mechanics for the defendant, between nine and ten months, at the rate of one hundred dollars per month, and boarded, and that their work is worth nine hundred and sixty dollars, for which they pray judgment.
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Western Djst. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This is an action for work and. labor, performed by the plaintiffs, for tbe defendant. They allege that they all three worked as mechanics for the defendant, between nine and ten months, at the rate of one hundred dollars per month, and boarded, and that their work is worth nine hundred and sixty dollars, for which they pray judgment. The defendant pleaded a general denial. He further averred, that true it was he had hired the plaintiffs to work for him, but that they had imposed upon him,…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
This is an action for work and labor done at a fixed price. The defendant has pleaded the general issue, and that the plaintiffs, who represented themselves as good and skillful workmen, were absolutely incapable of performing the work they had undertaken; that they spoiled his materials, and neglected their work, whereby he has sustained considerable loss, which he pleads in compensation and reconvention.
The plaintiffs established their claim to a considerable part of their demand, and had judgment for the sum of three hundred and sixty dollars, which rejected the defendant’s claim, set up…
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