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BROWNER v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Nos. 86-220, 86-221.

549 A.2d 1107 (1988)

Ferris N. BROWNER, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee. Rita A. WALKER, A/K/A Rita Browner, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 8, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Edward Thompson, with whom J. Lincoln. Woodard was on the brief, for appellants.

Edward E. Schwab, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Lutz Alexander Prager, Asst. Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before MACK and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Where the real truth is a loan of money, the wit of man cannot find a shift to take it out of the statute.

Lord Mansfield in Floyer v. Edwards, 1 Cowp. 112, 114-115, 98 Eng.Rep. 995, 996 (1774).

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Perhaps because so many of us have to live on credit and envy those who have the cash, it is fair to say that, rightly or wrongly, money lenders in general and usurers in particular have not been dealt with kindly...

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