Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. v. Benedict

This is a bill for instructions brought by the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company as executor under the last will and testament of William Curtis Benedict, late of Providence, deceased. The will has been duly admitted to probate by the Municipal Court of Providence and contains two clauses which involve the questions presented for consideration.

“Nineteenth. I give and bequeath unto the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000), IN TRUST, for the uses and purposes following, namely, to hold, care for and invest the same, and as soon as may be after…