Court of Appeals of Maryland May 31, 1871 (Scott v. Leary)

Miller, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit as shown by the bill of particulars was instituted to recover an excess of 4 per cent, over and above the legal rate of 6 per cent, interest paid by the plaintiff to the defendant on a loan of $7,500, from the 11th of May, 1866, to the 5th of February, 1868, and a like excess on another loan of $4,500, from the 5th of February, 1868, to