Roanoke Mortgage Co. v. Henritze

Roanoke Mortgage Company, Incorporated, hereinafter called the plaintiff, sued W. P. Henritze, seeking to recover certain commissions which it alleged the defendant had agreed to pay for negotiating a loan on a theatre building owned by him in the city of Roanoke.

*222During the progress of the trial, the defendant filed a plea of usury. There being no conflict in the evidence on this point, the jury were instructed upon that issue to find for the defendant, and that verdict and the judgment based thereon the plaintiff now seeks to have reversed.. This fair statement of the antecedent facts and…