Powell v. Smith
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish of Yernon; Don E. So Relie, Judge. Action by William H. Powell against C. L. Smith. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
PROVOSTY, .J.
Plaintiff claims that defendant employed him to help in disposing by sale of his property, and that, after the services had been rendered and a sale made, defendant refused to 'pay him the price agreed upon.
Defendant was a timber man of 30 years’ experience in the timber business, and was owner of several thousand acres of timber lands, and also of the timber on several other thousands of acres in Calcasieu and Vernon parishes and the adjoining counties of Texas. For converting this timber into lumber, he determined to establish a sawmill plant at Merryville, in the parish of…
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