Flannery v. Bishop

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court for King County which held that certain transactions between the plaintiff (respondent), Michael A. Flannery, doing business as Federal Way Auto Sales, and the defendants (appellants), Jerry Bishop and Jane Doe Bishop, his wife, doing business as Midway Auto Sales, and Bishop Enterprises, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the defendant) , were loans and usurious.

The record indicates that the plaintiff and the defendant entered into a series of separate and distinct oral agreements during a 3-year period prior to the commencement of this…