Stacks v. East Dallas Clinic

GREENHILL, Justice.

This is an action in which Marvin G. Stacks seeks to recover double the amount of usurious interest paid by him to the defendants, East Dallas Clinic, C. N. Duncan, M.D., R. D. Mahon, M.D., Walter H. Patton, M.D., William T. Green, M.D., and East Dallas Hospital, Inc., under article 5073.1 The determination of the case necessarily requires a construction of that statute. Article 1728 § 3. Trial was to a jury in county court where the court instructed a verdict in Stack’s favor. Judgment was entered for plaintiff in the amount of $305.10. The Court of Civil Appeals sitting…