Case ID: la-ann_10/html/0157-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Slidell, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J. B. C. Gazzo v. S. Baudoin.
    A plea of partial payment after maturity, made by the drawer of a bill, witlibdt further qualification, creates, in the absence of other evidence, the presumption that the bill had been presented,, and notice of non-payment given to the drawer, or that he had no funds in the hands of the drawee. ¡
    
    A PPEAL from the District Court of the Parish of Lafourche Interior, Gole, J.
    ■ÍTJL Sail & Bush, for plaintiff.
    
      Belcher, for defendant and appellant.
   Slidell, C. J.

It is an embarrassing task to apply legal principles to pleadings and proceedings, so loose and anomalous as are presented in this cause. But on the whole, we are not prepared to say, the judgment was erroneous j, for the defendant pleaded a partial payment of the bills after maturity, without alleging or showing that the payment, which was admitted at the trial, was mads with any qualification at the time of payment. In the absence of contrary evidence, it may be inferred from this payment by the drawer after maturity, that the bill had been presented and notice of non-payment had been given, or that the drawer had no funds in the hands of the drawee, or was otherwise without defence. We have here the simple fact of a partial payment by the drawer after maturity, without any evidence of antecedent laches.

Judgment affirmed,, with costs.