White v. Henderson

The judgment of the was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

This suit is brought on three promissory notes, made by the defendant to the order of the plaintiffs. The defendant pleads that they were given in error; that the consideration of them was corrupt, illegal and usurious, being for usurious and compound interest, and for commissions not really due; that, at the time he made them, he believed he owed the plaintiffs the amount, but that the fact is otherwise, the plaintiffs owing him $6,000, which he claims in reconvention. The plaintiffs are merchants in New Orleans, and the mercantile…