Court Opinion

ID: 7386224
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 00:18:57.216883+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:21:32.637631
License: Public Domain

Pearson, J.
The Court charged, that, if the jury believed the testimony of Kerr, as to the excess of fifty dollars, there was usury in the consideration of the deed. To this the defendant excepts. There is error, consistently with the testimony of Kerr. There may or may not have been a corrupt intent on the part of Alexander to exact usury. The question of intent ought to have been submitted to the- jury, and it was error for his Honor to assume the existence of this corrupt intent, from the fact that the bond sets forth a sum larger by fifty dollars than the amount borrowed.
Per Curiam. Judgment reversed and venire de novo awarded.