Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 15, 1848 (Goff v. Inhabitants of Rehoboth)

Shaw, C. J.

The only question raised in this case is, whether the defendants were bound to pay more interest than they tendered and brought into court. It appears to us, that the case falls clearly within that class, in which interest cannot be recovered upon an open and running account, for work and labor, goods sold, and the like, unless there is some contract to pay interest, or some usage, as