Landry v. Caffery Central Sugar Refinery & Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

This is an action for damages which plaintiffs claim as having grown out of the breach of a contract.

Plaintiffs are cane planters at or near Deleambre in the parishes of Iberia and Vermilion. The defendant, as its name indicates, is a sugar manufacturer and in connection with its business it owns a branch railroad on which it carries the cane it buys from the cane planter to the sugar refinery.

The terms and conditions of the contract between the plaintiffs and the defendant, in part, is that each plaintiff is to deliver at the sugar *758refinery…