In Re Swinburne
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Case Stated for an opinion of the court under Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 192, § 23.
1Opinion of the CourtDurfee, C. J.
The case stated is this: Benjamin Mumford, late of Newport, died in July, A. D. 1880, leaving a will wbicb was duly admitted to probate. The will, besides other bequests and provisions, bequeathed four United States bonds, of the par value of $8,000, to Lewis S. Simmons, in trust, to pay the interest accruing thereon to the testator’s widow during her natural life. It also provided that if the widow should choose to occupy his homestead, she should be allowed to do so at a low rent, not exceeding $200, and disposed of the residue of the estate in the words following, to wit:
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