Goldstein v. Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank

Sometime prior to February, 1970, plaintiff (sometimes hereafter referred to by his last name) like thousands of the inhabitants of this state received in the mail from the defendant bank (hereafter called the bank) a plastic passport to, depending on one’s point of view, instant credit or instant debt. This plasticized wonder is better known as a credit card. The credit cards were not solicited by the recipients but rather the defendant bank, to gether with other banks in this area, made a wholesale distribution of the cards as they attempted to make an auspicious entry into a new and…