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46 La. Ann. 1502

Torian v. Weeks

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided December 15, 1894

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1894-12-15

<p>1. Claim may be made in same suit for the wages of an. overseer, tlie value of' crops disposed of, that of supplies and money furnished to make and gather-a crop of rice and for the use and hire of teams employed thereon, and the.board of laborers — the allegations and proof disclosing that the plaintiff was at one and the same time overseer for the defendant on one plantation and that the two were engaged in the cultivation of another on shares. All of these items are matters properly embraced in one general plantation settlement be-. tween the parties.</p> <p>2. The proof administered on the trial of an exception of want of proper parties, plaintiff disclosing the fact that the contract relative to planting a crop on shares was made and entered into by and between the plaintiff and defendant alone, the former is capacitated to sue the latter in the enforcement thereof, notwithstanding the former subsequently made an agreement with d^thirdperson whereby he was to share his interest — the defendant not being advised of such subsequent agreement and consequently not participating therein.</p> <p>3. Having ascertained, for the purpose of determining the status of the exception,, that the third person was not a necessary party plaintiff, the trial and decision of theplaintiif’s demands can not be embarrassed thereby on the merits.</p>

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1928

3 state decisions

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Decided 1894-12-15

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¶1On Application por Rehearing.

¶2The following statement extracted from the brief of the defendant’s counsel puts very clearly the points on which he places reliance, viz.:

¶3We respectfully submit that the judgment should be corrected by deducting an overcharge for two sacks of rice (which the court has fixed at 1092 sacks, when it was 1090) at $2.57# per sack....................... ......... $5 15

¶4The charge of $5 per sack for 18 sacks ($90) should be reduced to $1.50 per sack, or $27, a reduction of ................................................................. 63 00

¶5There should be a credit given Mr. Weeks for bill of Torian’s he paid Dreyfous ............................................................................................................. 36 00

¶6A bill Mr. Weeks paid for repairs to cart for Torian....................................... 14 00

¶7For bill Mr. Weeks paid Kochs ..................................................................... 8 75 The amount Torian’s rice brought is for 250 sacks marked TM, and claimed by him in his petition and account as specifically his, giving him its best prices for 52 sacks (Trans., p. 330), at $1.50 per sack.................................. 44 28

¶8And for remaining 198 sack* at $L. 10 per sack, 198*224 of $90.............................. 7!) 20

¶9The 22 sacks marked O X, which he claims is at about $2.30 per sack............... 50 60

¶10There were 400 sacks maiked X shipped to account of Torian & Montgomery

¶11(Trans , p. 24), the mean price of the rice marked X we have seen is $1.03 . 412 00 The mean price of the rice markedX O X, of which Torian claims 400 sacks,

¶12we have seen is $2.37# per sack....................................................................... 950 00

¶13The statement with regard to the error of two sacks of rice having *1517been allowed the plaintiff in excess of the allowance demanded in bis petition is correct.

¶14That is a mere clerical error, and it should be corrected, of course.

¶15The second error assigned with reference to the eighteen (18) sacks of rice that were left on the defendant’s plantation can not be entertained. We think that this item was correctly disposed of in our opinion. In April of-1892 defendant let the plaintiff have fifteen sacks of rice for seed, and charged him ninety-nine dollars and seventy-five cents therefor; that is, at the rate of six dollars and sixty-five cents per sack; and the proposition submitted for our approval is, that for eighteen sacks of rice that plaintiff left on the defendant’s place in December of the same year, the latter should account at the price of one dollar and fifty cents per sack — a difference of five dollars and fifteen cents reduction in value per sack within a period of eight months. This seems anomalous, in view of the fact that defendant demanded and has been allowed the price of two dollars and fifty-seven and one-half cents per sack for the two sacks that were awarded the plaintiff through error.

¶16We think that the defendant has no just ground of complaint of our opinion on this score, allowing the plaintiff only two dollars and fifty-seven and one-half cents per sack, while we at the saíne time approved of the defendant’s demand for six dollars and sixty-five cents per sack sold the plaintiff in April.

¶17The three items of thirty-six dollars, fourteen dollars and eight dollars and seventy-five cents — while not covered by the accounts of the parties nor in the pleadings — may, as a matter of justice, be allowed the defendant. These items aggregate fifty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents.

¶18The remainder of the statement is satisfactorily disposed of in our opinion, and our argument need not be repeated.

¶19Conforming our opinion and decree to the foregoing observations, it is ordered and decreed that the amount awarded the plaintiff be reduced by the sum of sixty-three dollars and ninety cents, and as thus amended and reduced the same be affirmed.

¶20Rehearing refused.

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