Jean Baptiste Leduff, a free man of color, presents to the court that the widow Augustin Porche and Louis Carmouche owe him the sum of $929. Leduff, a carpenter and workman, claims that Porche hired him to build a sugar house, cisterns room and "other out houses" for the sum of $500. Porche later hired him to build the wall to sustain the engine of the sugar house and to set the boilers for the sum of $250. After those tasks were completed, Leduff "made all the Carpenter's and Mason's work for the Kettles, and set up the Kettles of the said Sugar house and built the chimney of the said Sugar house" for an additional $250. Leduff claims to have only received $21 for his work. Leduff prays that the court will settle this dispute and order the defendants to compensate him for his work [Original in English and French; French version incomplete].
Result: Partially granted; appealed; amended and affirmed.
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