Brown v. Roughton

Pee Curiam.

This was a suit for injunction and other relief embracing a prayer to have a deed canceled or declared void on the ground that, while it was absolute in form, it was in fact intended as a deed to secure the payment of a debt infected with usury, the grantor remaining in possession of the property conveyed. The petition seeks also to have declared void a contract to pay a certain amount as rent, on the ground that, while the contract purports to be an obligation for the payment of rent, its real consideration is interest on the debt at a usurious rate. The injunctive relief is…