Holmes v. Deplaignd

The plaintiff sues to recover $1000, the amount which he alleges is due him on a verbal contract to take down certain machinery which the defendant purchased from Mrs. L. J. Port in the parish of West Peliciana, and to put it up on the plantation of the defendant in the parish of Pointe Coupóe, and to serve as the engineer of the defendant in taking off his crop of 1869. He also sues on the account, made part of the petition.

The defendant pleads the general denial, and, further answering, admits that in the month of September, 1869, he made a verbal contract with the plaintiff, by which the…