Case Name: JAMES A. WHITCOMB vs. CHARLES J. ROGERS
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1918-11-15
Citations: 133 Md. 689
Docket Number: 
Parties: JAMES A. WHITCOMB vs. CHARLES J. ROGERS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland Reports
Volume: 133
Pages: 689–689

Head Matter:
JAMES A. WHITCOMB vs. CHARLES J. ROGERS.
Promissory notes: usury.
A party wishing to raise money, drew his promissory note for $10,000.00 payable to his own order and indorsed it in blank, and gave it to H. H. B. for him to raise money on it for the maker; instead of that, H. N. B. borrowed for himself $3,500.00 from C. J. R., for which he was charged a commission of $500; that loan not being paid, O. J. R. brought suit on the $10,000.00 note against the maker; the commission that had been paid was credited upon the note; held, that no question of usury arose.
Decided November 15, 1918.
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. (Dobler, J.)
The cause was argued before Boyd, C. J., Briscoe, Thomas, Pattison, Urner, Stockbridge and Constable, JJ.
Arthur L. Jackson, for the appellant.
Sylvan Hayes Lauchheimer (with whom was Fred. S. Swindell, on the brief), for the appellee.

Opinion:
The decision was affirmed, with cpsts, in an opinion by ITrnior, J.