Rierdon v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Djs. APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE THIRD PRESIDING. Rierdon claimed, with privilege, tbe sum of six hundred and forty dollars and seventy-six cents, of defendant, for carpenter’s work on the house of the latter, in the parish of Iberville.
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Eastern Djs. APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE THIRD PRESIDING. Rierdon claimed, with privilege, tbe sum of six hundred and forty dollars and seventy-six cents, of defendant, for carpenter’s work on the house of the latter, in the parish of Iberville. Thompson pleaded the general denial; and a special contract, on which he admitted the plaintiff had performed work, and on which a balance remained in his favor of forty-nine dollars, which, it was alleged, had been tendered to him. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff for four hundred and eighty-two dollars and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court, Porter, J. absent, was delivered by
Mathews, J.
This is an action on a quantum meruit, instituted by a carpenter to recover the value of certain labor done on a house of the defendant, at the instance and request of the latter. The value of the work, as estimated by the undertaker, amounts to six hundred and forty dollars and seventy-six cents; and thjs is established by the testimony of the cause, to be its value, according to. the customary charges, by workmen.
The testimony aucfcTto”writing ona f°rmer trial, cannot be read in evidence, on a £l*s.cqnent tiial…
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