American Freehold Land Mortgage Co. of London, Ltd. v. Brown

KEY, Associate Justice.

—The nature of this suit is sufficiently indicated by the charge of the trial judge, which, omitting formal parts, reads as follows:

“Gentlemen of the Jury: In this case the plaintiffs allege that R. L. Brown and J. Gordon Brown, under the name of Brown Brothers, had established at Austin and in the city of Waco a business of loan agents, which transacted business throughout the State, and had from 1888 to 1898 conducted the business of lending money on behalf of foreign corporations, receiving for their services a percent of the annual interest as it accrued upon the…