Munford v. McVeigh's
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Alexandria, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee was the complainant, and the appellant and others were the defendants.
1DissentRiely, J.
I regret that I am unable to agree with my brethren. My examination and study of our statutes upon usury and of the authorities have led me to the opposite conclusion. The decision, to my mind, is in effect largely a repeal of a statute that has stood without any material change for more than a hundred years, and overturns a line of decisions extending back to Scott v. Young, 4 Rand. 415, and coming down to the recent case of Edmunds’s Ex’ors v. Bruce, 88 Va. 1007. The operation of the statute may be, and doubtless is, harsh, but the law-making power, notwithstanding the decisions of this…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Young v. ScottCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1826
- Edmunds' Ex'or v. BruceSupreme Court of Virginia · 1892