Talon v. Jackson

This is an appeal from a decree of the probate court of the city of Pawtucket admitting an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Ezilda Mercier, deceased, to probate. The appeal was tried before a justice of the superior court and a jury, and it is here on appellants’ exception to the ruling of said justice directing a verdict sustaining the will.

The appellants are a brother and four sisters of Ezilda and are her next of kin. The appellee is the executor of her will and the husband of Lucy Jackson, nee Mercier, a sister of the late Joseph Mercier, deceased husband of…