Mounger v. Wells

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought at law by the appellees against the appellant and others to recover a stated amount of money, with interest thereon, alleged to be due to the appellees from the persons sued. The allegations of the appeh„es’ petition show that they are cotton brokers engaged in the business of buying and selling cotton on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange on commission, and that the principal amount claimed was the balance owing to them as the result of their executing sundry orders for the purchase or sale of cotton for future delivery, sent from several different…