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Show A Decision as to Mercantile Agencies. Agen-cies. Baxtmobe, Mi, November 19. In the United State3 Supreme Court here Judge Morris has decided, in the case of H. Gates Smith, of Charleston, West Virginia, against E. G. Dun & Co., for libel, that the plaintiff must furnish a bill of particulars as to when, where and to' whom the libelous publication was made This decision in the United States Court confirms similar findings in the State courts. It holds that in order to make privileged communications libelous, the party obtaining the report from the mercantile mercan-tile agency must be disclosed. The . subscriber sub-scriber of an agency who divulges the information in-formation may thus be made justly liable with the agency. , |