Haseltine v. Central Bank of Springfield
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME C0URT OE THE STATE OE MISSOURI. This was an action instituted in the Circuit Court of Greene County, Missouri, by the Central National Bank to recover of the defendants the amount of a promissory note for $2240, executed June 15, 1896, by two of the defendants as principals and two others as sureties.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME C0URT OE THE STATE OE MISSOURI. This was an action instituted in the Circuit Court of Greene County, Missouri, by the Central National Bank to recover of the defendants the amount of a promissory note for $2240, executed June 15, 1896, by two of the defendants as principals and two others as sureties. The answer was a general denial and a special defence of usury in the original notes, and partial payments, as set up in the several paragraphs of the answer. The case was referred to a referee, who reported the note sued upon to be a renewal note, and a consolidation of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice BeowN
The only question involved'in this case is whether, in an action upon a note given to a national bank, the maker may set off usurious interest paid in cash upon renewals of such note, and of all others of which it was a consolidation.
In this case, defendants sought to show that they had paid to the plaintiff bank within two years prior to the execution of this note, upon other notes of which this was a consolidation, and also upon this note, usurious interest aggregating $580; which they asked to have deducted from the principal sum of $2240, represented by this note, thereby reducing the…
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