Nevels v. Harris

BLAIR, Justice.

The parties will be designated as appellants and appellee.

Appellee, H. H. Harris, sued appellants, J. H. Newsom and wife, Audrey Newsom, W. B. Slaton, F. E. Redwine, and W. D. Nevels, on their promissory note for $6,400, payable to Otto Stollcy, who assigned it to appellee, and to foreclose a deed of trust lien securing the note executed by New-som and wife, on a section of land situated in Lynn and Dawson counties; and a trial to the court without a jury resulted in judgment for appellee as prayed; hence this appeal.

The defense to the note was usury, appellants alleging that…