Mercantile agencies
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Establishments which make a business of collecting information relating to the credit, character, responsibility, and reputation of merchants, for the purpose of furnishing the information to subscribers.
Brookfield v. Kitchen, 163 Mo. 546, 63 S. W. 825 ; State v. Morgan, 2 S. D. 32, 48 N. W. 314; Eaton, etc., Co. v. Avery, 83 N. Y. 34, 38 Am. Rep. 389; Genesee Sav. Bank v. Michigan Barge Co.., o2 Mich. 164, 17 N. W. 790.