Louisiana Court of Appeal November 9, 1908, No. 4518 (Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. v. Union Ferry Co.)

MOORE, J.

This was a suit founded on a contract alleged to have been verbally entered into between the plaintiff and the defendant by which the former undertook to raise for the latter, certain coal'sunk and lying in the bottom of the Mississippi River near the wharf at the head of Hospital Street in the city of New Orleans, for the price and sum of eight cents per barrel.