Huff v. Citizens' Sav. Bank & Trust Co. of St. Johnsbury

BLAIR, Justice.

As concerns this appeal, appellee, the Citizens’ Savings Bank & Trust Company of St. Johnsbury, Vt., as assignee of the Temple Trust Company, sued appellant, J. W. Huff, and G. C. Burk, on a $3,000 note executed by Huff to Temple Trust Company, and to foreclose a mortgage lien securing the note on two tracts of land. Huff alone answered, claiming the loan contract was usurious from- its inception. Appellee replied denying usury, and pleaded that Huff had conveyed the land to Burk, who expressly assumed the note as a part of the consideration for the land. The trial court…