Erber v. R. G. Dun & Co.

Caldwell, D. J.,

(charging jury.) In tlie year 1880; and for some years prior thereto, the plaintiffs were partners engaged in the mercantile business at Texarkana, in the state of Texas. The defendants are partners engaged in conducting a mercantile agency, having their offices or agencies in many of the principal commercial cities of the United States and Canada. It is the business of defendants to collect, through the reports of local agents and from other sources, information as to the character, credit, and pecuniary responsibility of merchants, traders, and others engaged in commercial…