D. S. Pate Lumber Co. v. Weathers

The appellee, Weathers, filed his bill in the chancery court of Lowndes county, seeking to recover from the D. S. Pate Lumber Company, a corporation with offices in Chicago, Illinois, and in Columbus, Mississippi, certain overcharges consisting of interest, usury, and especially certain brokerage charges extending from March, 1922, until a short time prior to October, 1929; and he also- specifically sought to recover fifty cents per thousand feet on lumber sold for him by the D. S. Pate Lumber Company, charged to his account, as brokerage, as alleged, fraudulently, and which was not permitted…