Legal Opinion
Parker v. Moore
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina
Decided October 22, 1901PublishedCited by 2 opinions
At Law. On entering order of nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONTON, Circuit Judge.
Counsel have requested that the court put in writing the reasons governing' it in ordering a nonsuit in this case.
The plaintiffs are cotton brokers in the city of New York, both of them being members of the New York Cotton Exchange. The defendant, a small farmer in Spartanburg, S. C,, employed them in the purchase of cotton futures for him. This relation began about a seat before the first of the transactions which are the subject-matter of this suit, and during that period the defendant made money out of them. The transactions sued upon here resulted in a loss. It…
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