Levert v. Berthelot
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-First Judicial District Court, Parish of Iberville; C. K. Schwing, Judge. Action by John B. Levert against Joseph B. Berthelot, and the Louisiana Sugar Company filed a third opposition and intervention. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Judgment for plaintiff and for intervener to the extent that its advances were applied to the cultivation and gathering of defendant’s crop.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
NIOHOLLS, J.
Plaintiff alleged: That defendant was indebted to him in the sum of 83,155.13, with legal interest, for this: That, desiring to cultivate and make a rice crop on his plantation situated in the parish of Iberville, he (plaintiff), in order to accommodate him, consented to temporarily make the necessary advances in cash and *1008supplies for said crop until defendant could make arrangements for advances with other parties (which had been done by him), and, when said arrangements were so made, the advances made by petitioner were to be paid back or reimbursed.
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