Big State Barging Company v. Calmes

WRIGHT, District Judge.

This matter is before the court on motion for temporary injunction. The case arises out of a contract between the parties in which the defendant, for a sum stated which the plaintiff agreed to pay, obligated himself to build for plaintiff one steel tugboat. The contract price was $95,000, including a down payment of $20,006 which the plaintiff promptly made. At the present time, the vessel is still under construction, but the hull thereof, with certain attachments thereto, is actually in being. Since the contract was entered into in Louisiana to build a vessel in that…