Commerce Trust Co. v. Best

This appeal is by the Commerce Trust Company and the California State Life Insurance Company from a judgment in favor of P. K. Best, assessing penalties against the trust company and crediting Best's obligation for borrowed money certain interest payments made by Best alleged to constitute usury. There are other parties to the suit as tried and disposed of, and the proceedings as a whole more or less complicated; but the parties to the suit other than those named above have not appealed or made complaint of the judgment, and we therefore, in the interest of brevity, omit the lengthy and clear…