FOWLER v. EQUITABLE TRUST COMPANY

No. 36.

141 U.S. 411 (1891)

FOWLER v. EQUITABLE TRUST COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 26, 1891.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William L. Gross for the Equitable Trust Company.

Mr. Robert G. Ingersoll and Mr. William Ritchie for Fowler.


Mr. JUSTICE HARLAN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

For the reasons given in the opinion in Nos. 32 and 33, ante, 384, the question of usury raised must be determined by the law of Illinois. But what was there said in reference to usury, commissions paid to the company's agent by the borrower and the application to the principal sum of payments made has no application to this case. This was a loan of $10,000 for five years at nine...

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