Garraway v. Retail Credit Co.

The principal issue is whether a judgment in a prior discovery suit in equity, holding mercantile credit reports were qualifiedly privileged and denying production of them because complainant failed to show malice and bad faith, collaterally estopped her in a later libel action from litigating against the same defendant ques tions of malice and bad faith in issuance of the reports. We hold it did not.

These six suits for libel were consolidated for argument in this Court. There are two groups of three suits each. The first (called Group 1) are consolidated causes Nos. 42,337, 42,340 and…