Industrial Trust Co. v. Alves

This cause is a suit in equity brought by the executor of the will of Samuel P. Colt for instructions relative to the construction of a portion of the eighteenth clause of said will. The case being ready for hearing for final decree upon bill, answers, replication and proof, has been certified to this court, as provided in Section 35, Chap. 339, G. L. 1923, for final determination.

Said eighteenth clause contains language as follows: “I give and bequeath the sum of one thousand (1000) dollars ... to each servant in my employ at the time of my decease who has been so employed for at least six…