First Nat. Bank of Emory v. Herrell

This suit was instituted in the justice court of precinct No. 1,. Rains county, Tex., by the appellee to recover of the appellant the sum of $53 as usury, alleged to have been charged appellee on three certain promissory notes set out in his pleadings. The appellant answered by a general denial, and by way of a cross-action or plea in reconvention alleged, among other things:

“That it is engaged in the banking business, and the life and interest of its business is dependent largely upon its dealings with the citizenship of Rains county and its honesty and fair dealings with its customers is…