Setter v. Landry

The plaintiffs, keepers of a dock at Algiers, sued the defendant, owner of the steamboat Pitser Miller, upon an account for $1972 19 for docking’, overhauling and repairing the said steamer, and furnishing materials for said Work. The defendant sets up a claim for $3000 in reconvention. The District Judge rendered a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs for $1472, rejecting the reconventional demand altogether. The defendant has appealed, and the plaintiff in answer thereto prays that the judgment be increased to the amount claimed in the petition.

The defendant insists, that the prescription of…