Ideal Motor Co. v. Warfield

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

The retail merchants of Hopkinsville, including the Ideal Motor Company, a retail automobile merchant, formed an organization which they styled the Hopkins-ville Retail Merchants’ Credit Association, having some forty or fifty members. Each member of the association furnished to it the total list of his credit customers, dividing them into four classes, as follows: (1) Good, (2) poor or slow, (3) undesirable, (4) D. B. (meaning dead beat). The rating given to each dealer by each merchant was indicated opposite his name. The fourth class by…