Redon v. Caffin

The damages which a tenant has the right to recover of his landlord, under Artiele 2665 of the Civil Code, are those which are the immediate result of the defect in the thing leased.

Redon hired of Coffin a house and store at the corner of Customhouse and Chartres streets, for the term of five years. The lease was annulled at the demand of the lessee, by decree of the Supreme Court rendered in May, 1851, (6 Ann. 487,) on account of a defect in the construction of the house, which threatened ruin, and rendered it unsafe to inhabit it. Redon, previously to the rendition of that judgment, to wit,…