Temple Trust Co. v. Haney

This is a usury suit. Haney and wife sought to establish usury in three separate loans made to them by the Temple Trust Company. Trial was to the court without a jury, usury found as to two of said loans, but denied as to the other, and judgment rendered accordingly. The Temple Trust Company and its receiver have appealed; and the Haneys cross-assign error as to the loan on which recovery of usury was denied them.

All of the loans in question involve what may be designated as a bonus of 12 per cent. on the money borrowed. The ones in suit may be, as treated by the parties in their briefs, for…