Davis v. Leeds
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action for the rescission of a contract with the defendant, to furnish the plaintiff a. steam engine and sugar and corn mill, for six thousand dollars, and for the restitution of the price, with damages.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action for the rescission of a contract with the defendant, to furnish the plaintiff a. steam engine and sugar and corn mill, for six thousand dollars, and for the restitution of the price, with damages. The plaintiff alleges, he is a sugar planter, and contracted with the defendant, who owned an iron foundery, to furnish and erect for him, a steam engine, sugar and corn mill, on his plantation, for doing which, he conveyed a house and lot to the defendant, at the price of six thousand dollars; and that the defendant bound…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
In this case, the plaintiff claims restitution of the price, which he had paid to the defendant, (who is an iron founder in the city of New-Orleans,) for a steam-engine, sugar-mill and corn-mill, which were by contract to have been furnished by the latter, constructed in a manner suitable to carry into effect the purposes for which they were intended. The petition contains allegations of unjustifiable delays, in making the engine and sugar-mill; of defects in their construction, so great as to render them wholly unfit for the uses, in which they were to be employed, and of a total neglect to…
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