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10 Paige Ch. 326

Holmes v. Williams

New York Court of Chancery

Decided August 15, 1843

New York Court of Chancery · decided 1843-08-15

This was an appeal from a decree of the vice chancellor of the fifth circuit dismissing the bill of the complainants with costs. The facts of the case are stated in the following opinion of the vice chancellor. Gridley, V. C. The two first named complainants constituted a mercantile firm in Utica, and were indebted to the defendant in a large sum of money.

Decided 1843-08-15

The Chancellor

¶1said that he concurred in the opinion of the vice chancellor, that where the holder and apparent owner of negotiable securities sells them at a discount, to a bona fide purchaser who has no knowledge of the purpose for which such securities were made, the holder representing such securities to belong to himself and to be business paper, the transaction was not usurious as between the vendor and the vendee ; although the representation of the vendor was false, and the securities were in fact made for the sole purpose of being sold at an usurious discount in the market.

¶2Decree affirmed with costs.

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