Pickering v. Pickering

This case is before us on appellants’ exception to the- decision of a justice of the superior court, sitting without a jury, allowing and admitting to probate a certain testamentary writing of one Olney L. Pickering, late of the town of Blackstone in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The town of Blackstone adjoins the city of Woonsocket in Rhode Island.

Olney L. Pickering at the time of his death was a domiciled resident of Blackstone. He died in that town in February 1929, the exact day being unknown, leaving an instrument entitled “Codicil to my will”, hereinafter referred to as the will…