Jones v. Meriwether

The bill in this cause may be summarized as follows: It avers that complainants, as trustees for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America, executed a mortgage to the defendant John B. Meriwether; that the mortgage was usurious; that payments of interest have sufficed to discharge the principal debt secured; that the mortgage ,was assigned to the other defendant Alice C. Meriwether; that said Alice C. knew the first mortgage was usurious and continued to collect usurious interest under the new arrangement, which was a mere device to cover up usury; that about one year before the…