R. H. Kimball, Inc. v. Rhode Island Hospital National Bank

This action in assumpsit was brought by R. H. Kimball, Inc., a corporation, to recover the amount of certain unauthorized checks, which had been paid by the Rhode Island Hospital National Bank, a corporation, and charged to the plaintiff’s account in that bank. A trial in the superior court resulted in a jury’s verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $39,170.42, and the trial justice thereafter denied the defendant’s motion for a new trial. The case is here on defendant’s exceptions to that decision and to ninety-six other rulings made during the course of the trial.

The plaintiff alleged in…