17 La. 371 | La. | 1841
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff claims $1400 for his salary during two years and four months as assistant clerk of the defendant in the district, parish and probate courts, in and for the parish of East Baton Kouge. The answer admits the services of plaintiff, but charges him with neglect and unskilfulness in the discharge of his duties-, and with habits of dissipation, in consequence of all which his services are alleged to have been at no time worth more than $20 per month. The defendant farther avers that plaintiff is indebted unto him in the sum of $600, for cash advanced and bills paid for account of plaintiff to divers persons, which sum he offers as an offset against the plaintiff’s claim. The case was submitted to a jury, who gave plaintiff a verdict for $577. After an effort to set it aside, the defendant appealed.
Our attention has been drawn to a bill of exceptions to the opinion of the judge below, who refused to hear witnesses to prove the payment of the $600
As to the merits of this case as exhibited by the record, there appears to have been some difference of opinion as to the value of plaintiff’s services. It has also been proved that some time was lost in consequence of the plaintiff’s occasional dissipation; for this, however, the jury appear to have made some allowance. Upon the whole, we are not prepared to say there is manifest error in the verdict; or that the purposes of justice require that the ease should be remanded for a new trial.
The judgment of the district court is therefore affirmed, with costs.