Wachsmuth v. Martini

Mb.. Justice Habkeb.

About the first of July, 1891, appellee, a retail dealer in clothing at Minonk, Illinois, made an order through the traveling salesman of appellants, wholesale dealers in clothing at Chicago, for goods amounting to $2,805. The order being largely in excess of any before ordered of them by appellee, appellants applied to the Mercantile Statement Company at Chicago for a statement of appellee’s commercial standing. On the 8th of July, 1891, that company addressed a letter to Martini at Minonk, requesting a statement of his financial affairs, and inclosed with the letter a…