HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
Appellants, claiming they had been libelled by the appellee, a mercantile credit rating agency, by matter set out in reports to its customers, sued to recover damages. The jury returned a verdict for the credit agency and, in their appeal to this Court, the claimants urge that Judge Shook erred twice in her charge to the jury — first, in not instructing that since the alleged libelant had not pleaded justification...
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