Nettles v. Somervell

COLLARD, Associate Justice.

This is a libel suit, brought by appellee, Joseph T. Somervell, on the 2nd day of October, 1888, against the appellant, R. C. Nettles, charging that Nettles procured and caused plaintiff’s name to be listed in a certain small printed paper-back pamphlet issued by an association styled “ The United States and Canada Dealers Protective and Detective Association,” which book purported to publish a list of names of persons who will not pay their honest debts, and who are unworthy of credit and trust.

A part of the pamphlet is copied in the petition, a portion of that…