National Water Purifying Co. v. New Orleans Waterworks Co.

Supreme Court of Louisiana

National Water Purifying Co. v. New Orleans Waterworks Co.

19 So. 865, 48 La. Ann. 773, 1896 La. LEXIS 500

CourtSupreme Court of Louisiana

DecidedMarch 24, 1896

DocketNo. 12,036

StatusPublished

Cited by6 cases

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National Water Purifying Co. v. New Orleans Waterworks Co., 19 So. 865, 48 La. Ann. 773, 1896 La. LEXIS 500 (La. 1896).

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The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

This is an appeal from the judgment dissmissing . plaintiff’s demand for the amount claimed to be due under the contract to furnish a filter plant for defendant’s waterworks, and an additional pipe for the works. The defence is, substantially, that after two tests the plant, instead of demonstrating the capacity for delivering filtered water, as stipulated in the contract, proved entirely insufficient and unfit for the contract purposes. On the facts the court holds that the defendants failed to fulfil the obligations of their contract. The plaintiff asks us to apply the rule laid down in Oivil Code, Art. 2541, et seg., as to reduction of the price, on the theory of partial performance of the contract. The defendant’s engagement was to pay for a plant that would accomplish certain [774]*774results and prove the capacity for the purposes thus explicitly defined. We do not perceive that there is any warrant in law to compel defendant to pay at a reduced price for a plant not that which plaintiff was to furnish and for which defendant was to pay.

Judgment affirmed.

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The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

This is an appeal from the judgment dissmissing . plaintiff’s demand for the amount claimed to be due under the contract to furnish a filter plant for defendant’s waterworks, and an additional pipe for the works. The defence is, substantially, that after two tests the plant, instead of demonstrating the capacity for delivering filtered water, as stipulated in the contract, proved entirely insufficient and unfit for the contract purposes. On the facts the court holds that the defendants failed to fulfil the obligations of their contract. The plaintiff asks us to apply the rule laid down in Oivil Code, Art. 2541, et seg., as to reduction of the price, on the theory of partial performance of the contract. The defendant’s engagement was to pay for a plant that would accomplish certain [774]*774results and prove the capacity for the purposes thus explicitly defined. We do not perceive that there is any warrant in law to compel defendant to pay at a reduced price for a plant not that which plaintiff was to furnish and for which defendant was to pay.

Judgment affirmed.

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