E. B. Williams & Co. v. Bienvenue
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Judicial District Court, Parish of Pointe Coupée; L. B. Claiborne, Judge. Action by E. B. Williams & Co. against Susie S. Bienvenue and husband. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBlanchard, J.
Defendant, a married woman, separate in property from her husband, owned a saw mill, which she operated, through the agency of her husband. This-mill was in the Parish of Point Coupée.
Plaintiffs were wholesale and retail dealers in lumber, buying and selling same under contract and exporting lumber abroad. Their place of business was the City of New Orleans.
On the 31st of May, 1899, these parties entered into a contract, under the terms of which defendant was to sell and deliver, at her cost, at a landing or place of shipment on the Mississippi river, her mill’s entire output, of cypress…
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