Hart v. Cook Brokerage Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice BeEase.

The plaintiff brought suit in the Magistrate’s Court of Spartanburg County against the defendant for the sum of $100. The complaint alleged that defendant made plaintiff a loan of $25 on November 24, 1925, and collected from plaintiff’s employer, on February 2, 1926, the sum of $27.50, $2.50 of the amount being interest; that the interest charged was usurious; and that plaintiff was entitled to recover $5 as a penalty therefor, and the further sum of $95, because the defendant willfully and unlawfully,- and in disregard of…