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- Title: Nelson v. Beal Et Al.
- Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 28, 1932
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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WAIT, J. This is an appeal from a final decree entered upon a bill to reach and apply which established that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in a certain sum with interest at twelve per centum from a date stated. The defendant contends that the allowance of interest at a greater rate than six per centum per annum was error. The contention is sound. G. L. c. 107, § 3, provides that, with exceptions not here material, no greater rate of interest than six per centum 'shall be recovered in a suit unless the agreement to pay it is in writing.' Since St. 1867, c. 56, it has been competent for parties to a transaction to agree upon and to pay and receive any rate of interest; but recovery by proceedings in court has been allowed at a greater rate than six per centum only when the agreement to pay the greater rate is in writing. See Marvin v. Mandell, 125 Mass. 562, 564. In the case before us there was no agreement in writing with reference to the rate of interest. There was evidence from which a promise to pay interest at the rate of twelve per centum could be found. That, however, is not enough to sustain the decree in this regard. A written agreement was essential to recovery by decree.
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