McLaren v. Steapp
Supreme Court of Georgia
This was a suit in equity, brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error, returnable to the April Term, 1846, of the Superior Court of the county of Campbell, the object of which was to recover back usury alleged to have been paid by the complainant to the defendant in the bill.
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This was a suit in equity, brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error, returnable to the April Term, 1846, of the Superior Court of the county of Campbell, the object of which was to recover back usury alleged to have been paid by the complainant to the defendant in the bill. The bill alleged, that in the year 1838 the complainant borrowed from the defendant in the bill the sum of seventy-six dollars and twenty-five cents, or other amount not precisely known by the complainant ; that the debt thus contracted was annually renewed, until, in the year 1843, at exorbitant…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Warner, Judge.
This case comes before the court on a writ of error, from the county of Campbell, alleging error on the part of the court below, in not sustaining a general demurrer to a bill in equity, filed by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in error, for discovrey and relief. The complainant in the bill seeks a discovery from the defendant in relation to various usurious transactions, which it is alleged took place between the parties, from, the year 1838 up to the year 1843, whereby the defendant received from the complainant the sum of one thousand dollars, or…
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