Merrill v. Boal

The above entitled cases were tried together by a justice of the Superior Court sitting without a jury. The cases were before said court on appeal from a decree of the Probate Court of the city of Newport denying the petitions filed by said Merrill and Bugnon respectively to have a certain written instrument in the form of a trust deed from Theodore M.. Davis, late of said Newport, deceased, to the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company, admitted to probate as a part of his will in so far as said instrument affected the disposition of his property after his death. Each case is before us on the…