Case Name: PRESSAS vs. MENDIBURN
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1832-06
Citations: 4 La. 128
Docket Number: 
Parties: PRESSAS vs. MENDIBURN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 128–129

Head Matter:
PRESSAS vs. MENDIBURN.
APPEAL PROM THE PARISH COURT OP NEW-ORLEANS".
A continuity of services prevents the wages of the first years services, from being barred by prescription.
An unliquidated demand bears no interest, eitheir before or after judgement.

Opinion:
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court, delivered by
Martin, J.
The plaintiff alleges the defendant owes him a large sum, the balance of several accounts, transactions, and dealings, they had together, and for wages, as a clerk to the defendant, in the Spanish province of Yucatan.
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The defendant pleaded the general issue, res judicata, and averred he was a creditor for a sum of about seven dollars, on posterior accounts and transactions, for which he claimed judgement by reconvention; but he afterwards abandoned this claim in reconvention, and pleaded prescription.
There was judgement for the plaintiff,, and the defendant appealed. . . , .
There is a mass of testimony, the weight of which the counsel for both parties have submitted to us without any argument; that of the appellant has, however, urged that the District Court erred in disallowing his plea of prescription to a part of the appellant's claim for wages, as the appellee's *i v'-v "i • r* • v *i t clerk. On this point, we are of opinion the court did not err, as the continuity of the services prevented the wages during the first years services being barred. 8 Marlin, 16. On the merits, we are unable to say the District Court erred.
It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged, and decreed, that the judgement be affirmed, the appellant paying costs in both courts.