Jones v. Mencik

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court, dismissing complaint on the ground that the written instrument on which it was based was not proved. The complainants are engaged in business as brokers in New York City and are members of the New York Cotton Exchange, and the defendant Mencik is a resident of Hohenelbe, Austria-Hungary, now part of Czecho-Slovakia. The action was brought to recover losses sustained by complainants on marginal transactions in cotton and was based on an alleged contract between them. Oh June 25, 1915, complainants, on an order from…