Watts v. Chreste

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

John W. Watts executed Ms note to Charles Chreste for $103,650.76 with interest and placed in the hands of the Westview Land Company, as trustee, divers pieces of property,. real and personal, with instructions that it should hold, manage, and convert this property into cash, pay this note, and pay what was left to Watts.

Watts later conceived the idea that he had paid to Chreste before this note was executed divers sums of money which Watts regarded as usury and that with these sums eliminated and other payments deducted this note, so Watts…