Cameron v. Meador-Pasley Co.

Meador-Pasley Company, payee, brought suit against M. R. Cameron, maker, upon a note, to which the defendant filed a plea of usury and pajinent. Certain of the allegations relating to usury were stricken on demurrer, and after final judgment in favor of the plaintiff the defendant brought the case to this court.

The defendant, who, as a merchant, had been adjudicated a bankrupt, desired that the plaintiff and another of his old creditors should lend him a sufficient amount of money to purchase from the trustee the stock of merchandise of which he was the owner at the time of his bankruptcy.…