Knighton v. Desportes Merc. Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Acting Associate Justice I. H. Hunt.

The facts are set out in the “case” as follows:

“This action was commenced .by the service of a summons and complaint on the defendant on the 9th day of March, 1918. The action was brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, a mercantile corporation, to recover the sum of $612.94, being double the amount of usurious interest alleged to have been collected and received by the defendant from the plaintiff on two certain notes given by the plaintiff to the defendant, to wit: Upon one note for $274, dated the 7th day…