Montjoy v. Lashbrook

delivered ,the Opinion of the Court.

Montjoy and wife brought this suit in chancery against her brothers, John and William Lashbrook, either for twelve and a half per cent, interest, on a pecuniary legacy bequeathed by her father to them, in trust for her benefit, or for the entire fund, on being indemnified against future liability, alledging that the trustees loaned their own money at that rate of interest; that it was the common conventional rate in their neighborhood, and that persons of unquestionable ability had offered to give it for a loan of the trust money.

The answers admitted those…