Maury v. Ingraham
Mississippi Supreme Court
IN error from the circuit court of Adams county; Hon. Stan-hope Posey, judge. The opinion contains a statement of the facts of the case. The market value of the bank-notes loaned, at seventy cents per dollar, was about $6,156.50, the nominal amount being about $8,795, or $9,000, minus the discount.
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IN error from the circuit court of Adams county; Hon. Stan-hope Posey, judge. The opinion contains a statement of the facts of the case. The market value of the bank-notes loaned, at seventy cents per dollar, was about $6,156.50, the nominal amount being about $8,795, or $9,000, minus the discount. The fund at the North, derived from plaintiff’s cotton, and premium of sterling exchange, and five per cent, premium on the whole for domestic exchange, wrhich was available to the bank in a few days after the loan to plaintiff, amounted to $5,042.15, which applied to and deducted as a credit from…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fishes
The plaintiff below, brought a suit in the circuit court of Adams county, to recover the amount of five promissory notes made by the defendant, for the sum of $1,139 each, payable one, two, three, four, and five years after date. The jury having found a verdict for the plaintiff, and the court having rendered the proper judgment thereon, the defendant has prosecuted this writ of error.
The defence relied on in the court below, was usury.
It appears from the evidence introduced on the trial, that the notes now in question, were given by the defendant to the plaintiff and another, as assignees of…
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- Gaither v. Farmers & Mechanics Bank of Georgetown Ex Rel. CorcorranSupreme Court of the United States · 1828
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