Louis Cadoré, a free man of color, seeks to recover a debt from Henry Demouy, administrator and former business partner of the late Samuel A. Jones. Cadoré represents that Demouy and the late Jones, former partners in the manufacture of “hogsheads and sugar barrils,” employed him, a carpenter, to build a large “shed” or “house” to be used as a cooper’s shop. Cadoré claims that the shed was completed in three months, from December 1852 to March 1853, to the two partners’ satisfaction. The charge for his labor was $50 per month, for a total sum of $150. Demouy, however, refuses to pay the debt, either for himself or as administrator of his late partner’s estate. Cadoré therefore seeks an order of the court directing Demouy to pay the debt. He also asks that his privilege on the shed be recognized and that the building be seized and sold to satisfy his claim.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse, New Roads, Louisiana
