Guidry & Swayne v. Miller

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Plaintiff instituted this suit seeking to recover damages for the breach of a building contract to construct a dwelling in the City of New Orleans, the amount of damages prayed for being the expenses incurred for labor, materials, supplies, and extras by it in the work and the profit which it alleged it would have made if it had been permitted to complete the work according to the contract.

Defendant, the owner of the dwelling, in his answer denied that he had breached the building contract and alleged that it *943bad been breached by the plaintiff, and reconvened for the sum of…