Evans v. Thompson

The plaintiff, W. P. Evans, filed an equitable petition against C. S. Thompson, to restrain the execution of a warrant to dispossess him as a tenant holding over, alleging that the deed to the premises which he executed to the defendant was infected with usury, and that the defendant was to make or procure a loan for him in a sum of money sufficient to pay the plaintiff’s indebtedness to the defendant, which loan was to be evidenced by two notes of equal amounts, due in one and two years respectively, bearing interest at the rate of eight per cent, per annum. A copy of the deed was attached,…