Dennis v. Sears, Roebuck & Company

As the case has been presented to this Court, it involves only one question: Is Tennessee Code Annotated, sec. 47-11-104, unconstitutional, because it violates Article XI, Section 7, of the Tennessee Constitution, which prohibits interest rates in excess of 10% per annum.

In the court below two other questions were presented: (1) Whether the suit was an appropriate one to be maintained as a class action? And, (2) whether the president of the Tennessee State Labor Council, AFL-CIO had such special interest, because some members of the labor organizations might be purchasers of goods under…