Talk:Viterbo v. Friedlander/Opinion of the Court
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| Edition: | Viterbo v. Friedlander, October 2, 1884, by a citizen of France against a citizen of Louisiana, to annul a lease of a sugar plantation from the defendant to the petitioner for five years; and alleging that by an extraordinary rise of the Mississippi river, which could not have been foreseen, and without any fault of the lessee, a crevasse was made in the levees of a neighboring plantation, the leased plantation overflowed, all the cane destroyed, and the plantation rendered wholly unfit for the purpose for which it had been leased; and that the petitioner requested the defendant, as soon as the water from the crevasse should have withdrawn, to put back the plantation in the same condition as when leased, and to replace the plant cane and stubble, and the defendant refused to do so By direction of the circuit court the case was transferred to the chancery side, the the petitioner filed a bill in equity, containing similar allegations, and praying for like relief . |
| Source: | Viterbo v. Friedlander from http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/120 |
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