Sultan v. Central Life Insurance

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] I believe the trial judge should have confirmed the report of the circuit court commissioner who alone had the advantage of seeing and hearing the witnesses. The intention to exact usury by making a necessitous borrower purchase property at twice its value is convincingly clear. The defendant had taken on foreclosure and owned for many years an old two-story four-family apartment house with an additional apartment in a high basement, the latter being occupied by…