Legal Opinion
Parker v. Moore
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 8, 1902No. 435PublishedCited by 19 opinions
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina, at Greenville.
1Opinion of the Court
KELLER, District Judge.
In October, 1900, the defendant, ai 'farmer of Spartanburg county, S. C., employed the plaintiffs, who were members of the New York Cotton Exchange, to purchase cotton for him for future delivery. The first order given by the defendant, which will serve as an illustration of all others of a similar character, is as follows:
“The Western Union Telegraph Company.
“Received at Cotton Exchange Building, N. Y., Oct. 2, 1900.
“Dated at Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 2nd.
“To J. H. Parker & Co., N. Y.: Buy me five hundred bales May cotton at nine seventy-eight or lower. W. A. Moore.”
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