Gate City National Bank v. Thrall

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The Gate City National Bank obtained judgment against F. G. Thrall upon a promissory note executed by him and another maker to R. E. Bruner, *395and indorsed by the payee in blank. The defendant contested the claim, and now appeals, upon the ground that two notes, between the same- parties, for $2500 each, in renewal of which that sued upon was given, were executed in Missouri and were tainted with usury under the law of that state.

Bruner, the payee, testified that the original notes were accommodation paper, executed to enable him to borrow…