C. S. Burt Co. v. Laplace
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Rightor, J. PPEAL from the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans. Plaintiffs agreed to furnish defendant with certain machinery for seven thousand three hundred and thirty dollars, of which amount nine hundred and seventy-five dollars was to be paid for a bagasse burner.
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Rightor, J. PPEAL from the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans. Plaintiffs agreed to furnish defendant with certain machinery for seven thousand three hundred and thirty dollars, of which amount nine hundred and seventy-five dollars was to be paid for a bagasse burner. It was agreed in the contract that if it should be shown that the “ bagasse burner did not properly consume bagasse so as to prove of advantage ” to the purchaser, the seller would pay the plantation fuel bill for the season. The seller sued for the unpaid two-thirds of entire purchase price, alleging his compl anee with…
1Opinion of the Court
*725The opinion of the court was delivered by
Breaux, J.
The defendant having determined to change the sugar mill and engine, and to erect other evaporating pans for the purpose of economizing steam in her sugar house, resolved also to buy steam tubular boilers, drums, feeders, spouts and pumps, together with a Gordon Patent Hollow Blast Bagasse Burner.
She contracted with the plaintiffs to furnish part of these improvements.
The plaintiffs bound themselves to furnish the boilers to measure seventy-two inches in diameter and twenty feet long, and erect them on the plantation, and to furnish expert…
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