Ayvas v. Green

57 So.2d 30 (1952)

AYVAS et ux.

v.

GREEN.

Supreme Court of Florida, en Banc.

February 22, 1952.

Jeptha P. Marchant and Joseph A. Perkins, Miami, for appellants.

Breslow & Gelb and E.F.P. Brigham, all of Miami, for appellee.

ROBERTS, Justice.

This appeal had its inception in a suit for an accounting and for foreclosure of a mortgage filed by appellee against appellants, in which the appellants interposed the defense of usury. Testimony was taken before a Special Master, who found that the appellee's assignor, hereinafter referred to as "the lender," had sought to collect a sum in excess of 25 per cent…