Trumbo v. Blizzard
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore county court as a court of Chancery. The present bill was filed on the 28th May, 1829, by Henry Neff the appellant’s testator, in his life-time to foreclose two mortgages, executed to him by the appellee John Blizzard, the one dated on the 25th April, 1818, the other on the 15th May, 1821, to secure the several sums of $1000 and $550, with interest, on the days therein limited.
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Appeal from Baltimore county court as a court of Chancery. The present bill was filed on the 28th May, 1829, by Henry Neff the appellant’s testator, in his life-time to foreclose two mortgages, executed to him by the appellee John Blizzard, the one dated on the 25th April, 1818, the other on the 15th May, 1821, to secure the several sums of $1000 and $550, with interest, on the days therein limited. The bill alleged that the appellee George Jacobs, was in possession of the mortgaged premises, claiming title thereto as the purchaser at a sheriff’s sale, under a judgment rendered against the…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Having attentively examined the testimony spread upon this record, we are clearly of opinion that each of the deeds of mortgage set out in the bill of complaint, was given for a grossly usurious consideration.
A number of witnesses appear to have been examined, some of whom swear that they had borrowed money of Neff, the appellant’s testator, at six per cent, interest; others that they had known him to lend money at an interest of six per cent, and had never known him to charge more; others, that they had calculated the interest for him, on…
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