Case Name: John Odell v. Tobias Cook
Court: South Carolina Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1830-12
Citations: 2 Bail. 59
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Odell v. Tobias Cook.
Judges: O’Neall J. and Harper J. concurred.
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 18
Pages: 59–59

Head Matter:
John Odell v. Tobias Cook.
A note made to raise money, and sent into tbe market, and sold at an usurious discount, is usurious and void: But bona fide notes and other securities are subjects of legitimate traffic, and where the indorser of a note made to raise money at an usurious interest, represents to a purchaser, that it is a business note, made for a bona fide consideration, and the maker is present and acquiesces, it is a fraud upon the purchaser, and they are both'liable. Vide Payne w. Trezevant, 2 Bay, 23.

Opinion:
Per Johnson J.
confirming the instructions given to the jury by Mr. Justice Evans, at Laurens, Fall Term, 1830.
O'Neall J. and Harper J. concurred.