Williams v. Bryan

Gaines, Associate Justice.

Appellee brought suit in the court below against appellants upon a promissory note. To the (petition appellant Williams filed the following plea: “And for ■answer the said T. J. Williams says that the contract sued on is usurious and unlawful, in this, that defendant did pay to plaintiff’s agents two and one-half dollars of the money received by drim on the loan of six hundred dollars, to pay for negotiating said loan. Wherefore, he says he did not receive from plaintiffs *596in fact six hundred dollars, to draw twelve per cent interest per annum, but five hundred and…