City Nat. Bank v. Dun’s Empirical Analysis
51 F. 160 · 1892
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cited by 1 later decisions
October 1893
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
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Relies on Hitchcock v. Galveston · The Mayor v. Ray · Bennett v. . Judson · Wall v. County of Monroe · Wells v. Supervisors
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““Terms of Subscription to the Mercantile Agency. “Memorandum of tlie agreement between It. G. Dun & Oo., proprietors of the mercantile agency, on the one part, and the undersigned, subscribers to the said agency, on the other part, viz.: “The said proprietors are to communicate to us, on request, for our use iu our business, as an aid to us in determining the projulety of giving credit, such information as they may possess concerning the mercantile standing and credit of merchants, traders, manufacturéis, etc., throughout the United States and in the dominion of Canada. It is agreed that such information has mainly been, and shall mainly be, obtained and communicated by servants, clerks, attorneys, and employes, appointed as our subagents, in our behalf, by tlie said R. G. Dun & Co. The said information to he communicated by the said It. G. Dun & Co. in accordance with the following rules and stipulations, with which we, subscribers to the agency as aforesaid, agree to comply faithfully, to wit: (1) All verbal, written, or printed information communicated to us, or to such confidential clerk as may be authorized by us to receive the samo, and all use of the Reference Book, hereinafter named, and tlie notification sheet of corrections of said hook, shall be strictly confidential, and shall never, under any circumstances, be communicated to the persons reported, but shall bo exclusively confined to the business of our establishment. (2) Tlie said It. G. Dun & Oo. shall not he r”
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