Case Name: Wm. Kempt ys. R. H. Kelly
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1885
Citations: 1 Gunby 65
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wm. Kempt ys. R. H. Kelly.
Judges: 
Reporter: Legal points decided by the Second circuit court of Louisiana (Gunby's Reports)
Volume: 1
Pages: 65–65

Head Matter:
Wm. Kempt ys. R. H. Kelly.

Opinion:
Farmer, J.
Where one party delivers a mule to another to keep for him for its feed, and the latter party wrongfully sell's the mule, held : The action to recover the value of the mule is not for a tort, but for an active breach of contract, and is prescriptible only by ten years. The action for property wrongfully taken is barred by one year; 21 An. 492; but in the present case the party rightfully had possession of the property and his acts were like those of an unfaithful agent or depositary.