Case ID: f_254/html/0990-03.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LOWER LAFOURCHE PLANTING & MFG. CO. et al. v. BREAUX. THE APEX. THE LOUISIANA.
    (Nos. 3279, 3280.)
    (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    January 7, 1919.)
    Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Suits in admiralty by A. P. Breaux against the barge Apex and the barge Louisiana; the Lower Lafourche Planting & Manufacturing Company, claimant. Decrees for libelant, and claimant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    L. P. Caillouet, of Thibodaux, La. (Caillouet & Caillouet, of Thibodaux, La., on the brief), for appellants.
    John D. Grace, of New Orleans, La. (M. A. Grace, of New Orleans, La., on the brief), for appellee.
    Before WALKER and BATTS, Circuit Judges, and GRUBB, District Judge.
   BATTS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant had a right to appeal, and is not to be criticized for the exercise of the right. That the amount actually in dispute may be less than attorney’s fees paid or costs incurred may evidence fidelity to right rather than litigious obstinacy. It may be that some of the amounts included in the judgment were erroneously allowed, and we might be compelled to further prolong a litigation that has had little excuse for being, but for the fact that the recovery against appellant is somewhat too small because of the exclusion of interest. The judgments are affirmed.