Carr v. Crow

Plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment dismissing their suit on an exception of no cause of action.

As a cause of action, plaintiffs allege that defendant is due them a certain sum “for money belonging to your petitioners now in his hands and which he has acknowledged in writing in a letter addressed to the husband of Mrs. Carr as per copy annexed hereto, which he promised to pay and send petitioners through Mr. Carr a check for but which he has failed and now refuses to pay your petitioners.”

Plaintiffs allege further that they leased their plantation to one Willis Allen by written contract,…