Court Opinion

ID: 9644257
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 20:51:30.362447+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:27:58.188945
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing
In his motion for rehearing, ap-pellee Paxton complains of our action in holding that he was not entitled to recover the $62 payment of usurious interest made to Ware in 1946. We held in our original opinion that appellee’s right to recover this payment was barred by the two year statute of limitation. A further examination of the record shows that Ware did not plead the two year statute of limitation. He did plead the provisions of Article 5073, supra, and urged it in bar of Paxton’s right to recover the item. It is our opinion, however, that Article 5073 which provides for recovery of penalty within two years after payment of a usurious charge does not bar recovery of the usurious charge itself. We, therefore, hold that appellee Paxton was, under the pleadings, entitled to recover the $62 item. In all other respects, the motion for rehearing is overruled: