59 Ga. 292 | Ga. | 1877
This was a suit' brought.on a note for nine hundred and twenty-six bushels of corn. Under the charge of the court, the jury found for the plaintiffs, when the defendants made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled, and they excepted.
Such is the rcasoxx and spirit of the law, and the practice of our people accords with this view of it. Nothing is more coxnxnon than for one neighbor to borrow corn of another in spring, and agree to return more in quantity in the autumn; and nobody ever dreams of violating any law against usury if more is returned than an increase at the rate of seven per cent, per annum.
The charge of the court was fair, and the verdict, we think, right. Possibly there may have been slight errors in the charge; but the verdict could not have been properly other than it was, if any correction were made therein ; and therefore the motion for a new trial was properly overruled.
Judgment affirmed.