Case Name: Emily KELLERMAN et al., Appellants, v. Harry SIEGEL and Billie Siegel et al., Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1975-10-07
Citations: 319 So. 2d 581
Docket Number: No. 75-162
Parties: Emily KELLERMAN et al., Appellants, v. Harry SIEGEL and Billie Siegel et al., Appellees.
Judges: Before PEARSON, HENDRY and HAVERFIELD, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 319
Pages: 581–581

Head Matter:
Emily KELLERMAN et al., Appellants, v. Harry SIEGEL and Billie Siegel et al., Appellees.
No. 75-162.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Oct. 7, 1975.
Horton, Perse & Ginsberg, Gilbert & Sil-verstein and Maynard J. Heilman, Miami, for appellants.
Louis Vernell, Miami, for appellees.
Before PEARSON, HENDRY and HAVERFIELD, JJ.

Opinion:
PEARSON, Judge.
This is an appeal from a summary final judgment for the defendants in a mortgage foreclosure. The trial judge found "that the plaintiffs willfully and knowingly charged and otherwise exacted interest on the mortgages circumscribed by plaintiff's amended complaint at a rate exceeding a lawful interest rate per annum . . ." We reverse upon a holding that there appears a genuine issue of material fact.
As stated in American National Growers Corporation v. Harris, Fla.App. 1960, 120 So.2d 212, the issue of usury is ordinarily one of fact to be determined at a trial. This is especially true where, as in the instant case and the cited case, the pleadings, affidavits, admissions and depositions show that the defendant signed notes for sums in excess of those lent him, but where there is a factual dispute as to the purpose for giving the additional notes and as to the extent of the payments made. Accordingly, the summary judgment is reversed.
Reversed.