Case Name: UNION BANK OF GEORGETOWN v. GOZLER
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1822-10
Citations: 24 F. Cas. 564
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNION BANK OF GEORGETOWN v. GOZLER.
Judges: (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 24
Pages: 564–564

Head Matter:
Case Ho. 14,358.
UNION BANK OF GEORGETOWN v. GOZLER.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 349.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Oct. Term. 1822.
Usury — Bank Discount.
It is not usury m a bank to take the discount for sixty-four days, upon a sixty-day note.
[See Bank of Alexandria v. Mandeville, Case No. 850.1
Assumpsit upon the joint and several note of the defendant and two others, with a memorandum to credit the first drawer, who •was Vincent King. The defence was usury in taking sixty-four days’ discount upon a sixty-day note.
Mr. Key. for plaintiff.
Mr. Jones, for defendant.

Opinion:
THE COURT
(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)
decided without argument, that it was not usury to take by way of discount, interest for sixty-four days on the amount of the note; the point having been before decided both here and in Alexandria. See Bank of Alexandria v. Mandeville (at Alexandria, July, 1809) [Case No. 850]; Bank of Washington v. Eliot (unreported).