Case ID: la-app_6/html/0786-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "JONES, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 9787
    Orleans
    GENERAL CIGAR CO. v. SEMON
    (--. Oipinion and Decree.)
    
      (Syllabus by the Court)
    
    1. Louisiana Digest — Landlord and Tenant —Par. 51, 53, 65.
    A lessee cannot recover from his lessor the cost of moving owing to the defective condition of the leased premises.
    Appeal from Civil District Court, Division , “D”. Hon. Porter Parker, Judge.
    Action by General Cigar Company, Inc., against Jacob H. Semon.
    
      There was judgment for defendant and plaintiff appealed.
    Judgment amended.
    Legier & Gleason, D. Y. Dussan, of New Orleans, attorneys for plaintiff, appellant.
    M. H. Manion, H. W. Kaiser, of New Orleans, attorneys for defendant, appellee.
   JONES, J.

In this suit plaintiff seeks to maintain in force a certain lease, although the lessee had been forced to leave the premises for ninety days on account of necessary changes in the building ordered by the city engineer. The defendant having averred that the necessary work amounted to reconstruction and, therefore, justified annulment of the lease, prayed for. cancellation thereof and damages.

As the lower court annulled the lease and allowed as damages the amount paid by defendant for moving one hundred and twenty-five ($125.00) dollars, plaintiff has appealed suspensively to this court.

■ The sole issue before us is the validity of thte judgment for damages, as the Supreme Court has recently annulled the lease for another portion of the same building in the case of Chryasoverges vs. General Cigar Co., No. 26514 La. Sup. Court.

In the case of Kelly vs. During, decided by this court on May 9th, 1927, we held that a lessee could not recover under such circumstances.

The judgment is, therefore, affirmed in so far as it annuls the lease and reversed in so far as it granted damages to the lessee.