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Samuel Shopiro, Respondent, v. Samuel N. Berlin et al., Appellants.
    (Argued May 23, 1917;
    decided June 12, 1917.)
    
      Shopiro v. Berlin, 167 App. Div. 951, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered March 8, 1915, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The action ivas brought to recover the sum of $6,000 with interest from September 15, 1913, upon a bond executed by the defendants to one Jacob Lourie, which came into the possession of the plaintiff through a number of mesne assignments. The defense was usury, it being claimed by the defendants that the transaction whereby the plaintiff came into possession of the bond in suit was really a loan of $20,000 directly, from the plaintiff to the defendants, and for which loan the plaintiff exacted a.usurious bonus of $3,350.
    
      Charles Trosk and Henry Fluegelman for appellants.
    
      T. Aaron Levy for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Chase, Collin, Cuddeback, Cardozo, McLaughlin and Crane, JJ. Not sitting: Andrews, J.