Chappell v. Odd Fellows' Home, Inc.

This is a bill in equity brought by the administratrix of the estate of Sarah A. V. Watts, late of the town of East Providence, deceased, to recover the property Mrs. Watts had turned over to the Odd Fellows’ Home upon her admission thereto.

The respondents filed a demurrer to the bill, the principal point of which was that complainant had an adequate remedy at law. The bill alleged a trust. The demurrer was overruled and was abandoned. The respondents then filed an answer and by way of a cross bill alleged among other things that the decedent had made a promise that upon her admission to the…