Lyles v. Union Planters Nat. Bank of Memphis
Decision Date | 27 September 1965 |
Docket Number | No. 5-3630,5-3630 |
Citation | 393 S.W.2d 867,239 Ark. 738 |
Parties | , 2 UCC Rep.Serv. 1077 Robert C. LYLES, Appellant, v. UNION PLANTERS NATIONAL BANK OF MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Appellee. |
Court | Arkansas Supreme Court |
Ralph E. Wilson, Osceola, for appellant.
Swift & Alexander, Osceola, for appellee.
This is a usury case. The appellee, Union Planters National Bank, filed action in replevin against appellant Lyles to repossess a motor vehicle purchased by Lyles on time payments. Lyles pleaded usury. The Trial Court held there was no usury because the law of Tennessee governed the transaction; and from that holding Lyles brings this appeal.
The cause was submitted to the Trial Court on the original contract and a stipulation, from which we copy the germane portions:
'1. That on the 25th of May, 1964 Robert C. Lyles, who at that time resided at 933 Jackson Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, purchased a motor vehicle * * * from McCaa Chevrolet Company at its place of business at West Memphis, Arkansas.
It is agreed by all parties that the amount of the 'finance charge' (i. e., interest) exceeds 10%. It is also agreed that if the law of Tennessee governs the transaction there is no usury, but if the law of Arkansas governs the transaction there is usury under our cases, some of which are: Hare v. General Contract, 220 Ark. 601, 249 S.W.2d 973; Winston v. Personal Finance, 220 Ark. 580, 249 S.W.2d 315; Strickler v. State Auto, 220 Ark. 565, 249 S.W.2d 307; and Commercial Credit Corp. v. Kitchens, 231 Ark. 104, 328 S.W.2d 335. Furthermore, if there was usury in the original contract then the transfer of the contract to the appellee bank did not eliminate the purchaser's right to plead usury. German Bank v. Deshon, 41 Ark. 331; and Hare v. General Contract Purchase Corporation, 220 Ark. 601, 249 S.W.2d 973.
Ordinarily in a case like this one, the lex loci contractus (i. e., the law of the place of the making of the contract) governs unless: (1) there is an agreement between the parties that the law of another State shall govern; and (2) there is a reasonable and bona fide basis for the parties so agreeing. Cooper v. Cherokee Village, 236 Ark. 37, 364 S.W.2d 158; and Hutchingson v. Republic Finance Co., 236 Ark. 832, 370 S.W.2d 185. These cited cases are our most recent holdings on the issue of the law applicable to such transactions. In the Cooper case we held that the law of Law York applied to the transaction because: (a) the contract was made in New York; (b) it was to be performed in New York; and (c) the parties expressly stated that the law of New York was to govern. In the Hutchingson case we held that the law of Iowa did not govern because: (a) the contract was made in Arkansas; (b) the work was done in Arkansas; and (c) the law of Iowa bore no reasonable relationship to the transaction, even though the payments were to be made in Iowa. In the Hutchingson case we said:
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