Reagan v. District of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
In Error to the Police Court for the District of Columbia. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This action arose in the police court of the District of Columbia upon a criminal information charging Bernard Reagan, plaintiff in error, hereafter referred to as defendant, with a violation of the provisions of the act of Congress approved February 4, 1913 (37 Stat. at L. 657, chap. 26), commonly known as the “Loan Shark Law.” The information is in three counts.
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In Error to the Police Court for the District of Columbia. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This action arose in the police court of the District of Columbia upon a criminal information charging Bernard Reagan, plaintiff in error, hereafter referred to as defendant, with a violation of the provisions of the act of Congress approved February 4, 1913 (37 Stat. at L. 657, chap. 26), commonly known as the “Loan Shark Law.” The information is in three counts. In the first count, defendant is charged with making a loan to one Joseph P. Cullen and one Robert E. Bender, in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Orsdkl
The act of Congress provides, among other things, “that hereafter it shall be unlawful and illegal to engage in the District of Columbia in the business of loaning money upon which a rate of interest greater than six per centum per annum is charged on any security of any kind, direct or collateral, tangible or intangible, without procuring license; and all persons, firms, voluntary associations, joint-stock companies, incorporated societies, and corporations engaged in said business shall pay a license tax of five hundred dollars per annum to the District of Columbia. * * * That no such…
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