Ross v. Zuntz

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

Plaintiff’s object in this suit is to recover the sum of $46,990, in reimbursement and as the value of improvements which he had placed on a sugar plantation owned by the defendant, and which plaintiff had leased from him for a term of seven years.

The defense is a general denial and the averment that plaintiff’s claim, if any he ever had for such improvements, had been included in, *889and covered by, a settlement of accounts between the parties, in which plaintiff was shown to be in defendant’s debt in the sum of $18,276.62, for which the former…