Case Name: Samuel Shopiro, Respondent, v. Samuel N. Berlin et al., Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1917-06-12
Citations: 221 N.Y. 567
Docket Number: 
Parties: Samuel Shopiro, Respondent, v. Samuel N. Berlin et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 221
Pages: 567–567

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Chase, Collin, Cuddeback, Cardozo, McLaughlin and Crane, JJ. Not sitting: Andrews, J.