People v. J. M. Adams & Co.

This matter was initiated by the filing of two complaints, one charging in one count, the other charging in six counts, that the appellant, Walters, and his nonappealing co-defendants had on seven specified occasions asked and received of the complaining witness usurious interest on loans varying in the principal involved from fifteen to twenty-five dollars. The main question in the case is presented by appellant’s contention that the several transactions were not loans but were payments for the assignments of earned Avages, and that the sums received by him were these wages.

The prosecuting…