Taylor v. Shelton

LEVY, Associate Justice.

The suit is to recover double the amount of $1100 usurious interest paid on money loaned in the sum of $5500. Appellee answered by general denial, and, in bar of recovery, that appellants had not paid, or caused to be paid, the principal of the debt. The trial was to the court, and judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant in the suit.

The following are the findings of fact and conclusions of law made • by the trial court:

“I. I find that heretofore on, or about, the 11th day of April, 1907, the defendant, Thomas F. Shelton, loaned to the plaintiffs, Mary J.…