Whitlow v. Culwell

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Chief Justice.—John W. Boss, appellee’s intestate, brought this suit against the appellant to recover under the statute double an amount of money allegéd to have been paid by Boss to Whitlow as usurious interest. Boss dying pending the suit, the appellee, as his administrator, prosecuted it to judgment in the sum of $560, from which Whitlow has appealed.

On October 31, 1893, Boss executed his note to Whitlow, payable in one year, for the sum of $2480. Of this amount $2000 represented money, loaned by Whitlow to Boss, and $480 represented interest at the rate of 24 per cent for the…