United Carbon Company v. Mississippi River Fuel Corp.

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff, United Carbon Company, is appealing from a judgment dismissing, on defendant’s three-year prescriptive plea, its suit to recover from the Mississippi River Fuel Corporation the sum of $249,-140.44, with interest at 6%, 1 under a contract of August 1, 1929, as amended, in which the defendant agreed to pay, over and above the established rate, the sum of 1.6^ per thousand cubic feet on a quantity of gas equivalent to 15,571,278 thousand cubic feet of gas purchased during the period from November 21, 1944, to November of 1946.

The record discloses that the…