Ansley v. Concrete Construction & Contracting Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; T. C. W. Ellis, Judge. Suit by Hubert M. Ansley against the Concrete Construction & Contracting Company ' and others. Mrs. Eugene L. Ansley was substituted as plaintiff. Judgment for plaintiff against the Concrete Construction & Contracting Company, and she appeals for insufficiency of the judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
Plaintiff claimed $20,000 from the three above-named defendants, in solido, and obtained a judgment against the Concrete Construction & Contracting Company (hereafter ' called the Company) for $5,000, and otherwise rejecting his demand, from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal.
It appears that the Company obtained, or was in the way of obtaining, from the city of New Orleans, certain repaving and subsurface drainage contracts, which, on execution, would entitle him to about $124,000, payable in certificates that were not altogether equivalent to cash,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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