Acme Letter Shop v. State

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a permanent injunction granted by the trial court restraining defendants from “demanding, receiving or by the use of any means attempting to collect from any borrower usurious interest on account of any loan.”

This suit was brought by the Attorney General of the State of Texas on behalf of the State of Texas under Article 4646b, Vernon’s Ann.Tex.Civ.St., commonly known as the “loan shark act,” which statute authorizes the Attorney General to seek injunctions against those persons who are engaged in the business of habitually loaning money at.…