Legal Opinion

In Re Lewis

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided February 20, 1892Published

Case stated for an opinion of the court under Pub. Stat. E. I. cap. 192, § 23.

1Opinion of the CourtStiness, J.

The case stated calls for a construction of the will of Moses B. Lewis, late of Hopkinton, deceased. The clauses in question, numbered for convenience of reference, are as follows : —

I. “ I give, devise, and bequeath to my wife, Phebe L. Lewis, the interest of twenty-six hundred dollars in the First National Bank in Hopkinton, E. I., and also the privilege of the south half of the house and also the south garden, . . . and also all the household furniture, for her own personal benefit during her natural life or widowhood, and after her decease to have a set of tombstones, to be of Italian…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Canfield v. BostwickSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1852
  2. Warner's Executors v. SwearingenCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1838

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