Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. Jensen

The defendant, Paul D. Jensen, prosecutes this appeal to reverse a decree of the circuit court of Cook county, entered in a foreclosure suit.

In his brief defendant states that “The only question presented to this Court for decision on this appeal by the defendant, Paul D. Jensen, is whether the transaction between Baer, Eisendrath and Company and Jensen was usurious.”

The record discloses that in March, 1927, defendant owned a piece of real estate on the north side of Chicago on which he desired to construct a building, and to obtain sufficient funds he, on March 7, 1927, applied to Baer,…