Cassidy v. McDonald

The above entitled cause is an appeal from a decree of the Municipal Court of Providence admitting to probate an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Elizabeth Cassidy, late of Providence.

The appeal' was tried before a justice of the Superior Court sitting with a jury and resulted in a verdict sustaining the instrument as the last will of Miss Cassidy. The appellants duly filed a motion for new trial which was denied by the justice. The cause is before us upon the appellants’ exception to the decision of the justice on the motion for new • trial -and also upon certain…