No. 2190 Precedential Affirmed Processed

Diggs v. Maury

Louisiana Supreme Court · Filed January 15, 1871 · 23 La. Ann. 59

Also decided on this docket: La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., December 29, 1967 207 So. 2d 783; La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., April 8, 1927 6 La. App. 333; La. Ct. App. 4th Cir., June 6, 1966 188 So. 2d 96

Cited by

Degrey v. Fox 205 So. 2d 849 La. Ct. App. 4th Cir. 1968
May v. Schepis 147 So. 717 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1933
Boutte v. New Orleans Terminal Co. 72 So. 513 La. 1916
Bianchi v. Del Valle 42 So. 148 La. 1906
Brodtman v. Finerty 41 So. 329 La. 1906

Opinion text

Ludeling, C. J. The plaintiff sues to recover the rent for a house and square of ground in Jefferson. The defendant filed a general ■denial, and further alleged the house was uninhabitable, and that in •consequence of the want of repairs he was greatly damaged by the deterioration of his furniture, etc. The plaintiff has proved her claim. The claim of the defendant in reconvention is untenable. If the lessor refused or failed to make necessary repairs, the lessee might himself have, caused them to be made, and deduct the cost from the rent, on proving that the repairs were indispensable, and that the price paid by him was just and reasonable. C. C. 2694 [2664]; 4 Rob. 428 ; 21 An. 714; 22 An. 292. It is therefore ordered that the judgment of the court a qua be affirmed, wifli costs of appeal.