Crew v. Bradstreet Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY PLAINTIEES EROM THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 281 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 691 December Term 1884, C. P. No. 3. On January 31,1885, J. Lewis Crew and Lewis J. Levick, trading as Crew, Levick & Co., brought case against the Bradstreet Company, filing a declaration, which averred in substance that the defendant was engaged in carrying on the business of a commercial agency, and represented to the plaintiffs and the…
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APPEAL BY PLAINTIEES EROM THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 281 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 691 December Term 1884, C. P. No. 3. On January 31,1885, J. Lewis Crew and Lewis J. Levick, trading as Crew, Levick & Co., brought case against the Bradstreet Company, filing a declaration, which averred in substance that the defendant was engaged in carrying on the business of a commercial agency, and represented to the plaintiffs and the public that for certain fees and rewards it would use due diligence and care in ascertaining the financial standing of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Me. Chief Justice Paxson :
It is not denied that the book furnished the plaintiffs by the Bradstreet Company contained a serious error. The Union Refining & Manufacturing Company of Jersey City was therein rated as having $600,000 capital actually paid in, whereas in fact that was the amount of its authorized capital, of which only $20,000 had been paid in. This was explained bj- the Bradstreet Company as a typographical error. The plaintiffs allege that on the faith of the statement contained in the book they sold the Union Refining & Manufacturing Company a bill of merchandise…
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