Talbot v. Bridges

The will of Ella M. Nye was admitted to probate by the probate court of Providence. Her next of kin appealed from this action to the Superior Court. After trial in that court, the jury returned a verdict “breaking” the will. The appeal is now before this court on the appellees’ exceptions. The only exception necessary to be considered is the one to the denial of appellees’ motion that the jury be directed to return a verdict sustaining the will.

Ella M. Nye died February 25, 1931, at the age of eighty-one. Her husband, William G. Nye died in 1918. They had no children. After their marriage in…