Legal Opinion

Merrill v. Boal

Superior Court of Rhode Island

Decided July 1, 1925No. P.A.No.1942; P.A.No.1943Published

1Opinion of the CourtBaker, J.

These two cases were tried together, jury trial waived, by stipulation, the same general ques-being involved in each case.

They are appeals from a decree of the Probate Court of the city of Newport, refusing to admit to probate a certain instrument, hereinafter called for convenience the “trust deed,” bearing date August 14, 1911, and executed by Theodore M. Davis.

It is undisputed that in April, 1915, certain papers were admitted to probate by said court as the will of the said Theodore M. Davis and a codicil thereto.

At the hearing of the cases at bar certain exhibits were put in de bene both…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Cromwell v. County of SacSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  2. Robb v. . Washington Jefferson CollegeNew York Court of Appeals · 1906
  3. Atwood v. Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1921
  4. Heaston v. KriegIndiana Supreme Court · 1906
  5. Ransom v. SiglerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1917

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