Case Name: BORUM & WHITING COMPANY vs. EDWARD F. SPORL
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1915-02-01
Citations: 12 Teiss. 154
Docket Number: No. 6260
Parties: BORUM & WHITING COMPANY vs. EDWARD F. SPORL.
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions, Court of Appeal, parish of Orleans (Teissier)
Volume: 12
Pages: 154–155

Head Matter:
No. 6260.
BORUM & WHITING COMPANY vs. EDWARD F. SPORL.
Syllabus.
An unliquidated claim for damages cannot be set off against a liquidated claim upon a contract, where the parties reside in the same parish and the claim for damages does not arise out of the contract sued on.
Appeal from the 'Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Division “D,” No. 104,284. Honorable Porter Parker, Judge.
Thilberger & Janin, for plaintiff a“nd appellee.
Opinion and decree, February 1st, 1915.
Rehearing refused, March 15,1915.
L. A. Hubert, for defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
His Honor, JOHN ST. PAUL,
rendered tbe opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:
Briefly stated tbe case is this: Can an unliquidated
claim for damages be set off against a liquidated claim upon a. contract, where the parties reside in the same parish, and the claim for damages does not arise out of the contract sued on?
The answer is that it cannot — and the reason is that the statutory law of the State as construed by its Court of last resort has so provided.
Thus the set off cannot be claimed by way of compensation, because compensation is not allowed where the debts are not equally liquidated.
Garland's Code of Practice, Art. 366 (A. No. 6).
Nor can it be claimed by way of reconvention, because where plaintiff and defendant reside in the same parish the reconventional demand must be necessarily connected with, or incidental to, the main demand.
Garland's Code of Practice, Art. 375 (C.).
Judgment affirmed.