Sherwood v. Roundtree
U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia
Suit on Promissory Note. Plea of usury. Motion for new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtSpeer, J.
The plaintiff brought, suit to recover the face value of the following promissory note:
$2,500. Fort Valley, Ga., December 28, 1883.
On the first day of December, 1888, I promise to pay to J. K. O. Sherwood, or order, at the office of the Corbin Banking Company, New York city, twenty-five hundred dollars, with interest from this date at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, payable annually, as per five interest notes hereto attached, value *114received; and I hereby waive and renounce my right to the benefit of the exemption provided for by the constitution and laws of Georgia in all property I now…
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