State v. O'Brien
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information in two counts charging the accused with having “guaranteed” certain loans and with demanding therefor interest at a rate of more than twelve per cent per annum, in alleged violation of the statute (§ 4798), brought to the Criminal Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Peasley, Acting-Judge; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The information charges the accused in two counts with a violation of § 1 of Chapter 244 of the Public Acts of 1911 as amended by Chapter 143 of the Public Acts of 1915 (now § 4798 of the General Statutes).
The first count charges that on August 20th, 1917, the accused, as an agent of the Mutual Guarantee and Indorsement Company, a firm doing business in New Haven, and of John G. Dunbar of Boston, Massachusetts, neither of them being licensed as a pawnbroker, guaranteed as such agent the loan of $50 to Philip Bushley of New Haven, and as such agent indirectly charged, demanded, accepted and…
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