Pacific Eastern Corp. v. Gulf Life Holding Co.

OPINION

KOCH, Judge.

This appeal involves a 1971 lending transaction relating to the development of a Nashville hotel. The borrower filed suit in 1993 in the Chancery Court for Davidson County against nine defendants, including the original lender and its assignees, seeking to invalidate the transaction on the grounds of usury. The trial court dismissed the complaint against seven of the defendants on the ground that the statute of limitations for usury had expired. It also found that the complaint failed to state a claim against two of the seven defendants because the borrower’s payments to…