Childs Real Estate Co. v. Shelburne Realty Co.

This appeal was taken by the defendant Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association (hereafter called the bank) from a judgment awarding plaintiff $3,861.20 which was in the possession of the bank in its capacity as trustee under a trust indenture, and denying the bank recovery of $3,074.73 demanded by the bank in a cross-complaint.

In 1924 Childs Company of Providence, of which the plaintiff Childs Real Estate Company, Inc. (hereafter called Childs), is the successor, executed a 96-year lease on certain real property to The L. Harris Realty Co. The Harris company later changed its…