Hoffman v. Louis D. Miller & Co.

This is an action of trespass on the case for negligence to recover $1,800, that sum being the value of a diamond ring which the plaintiff deposited with the defendant 'for safekeeping while she was a guest at its hotel. At the conclusion of the evidence in the superior court the trial justice directed a verdict for the plaintiff but only in the sum of $500, on the ground that- general laws 1938, chapter 480, §1, as amended by public laws 1939, chap. 709, limited recovery to such amount. The case is here on the plaintiff’s bill of exceptions containing an exception to that ruling and other…