Legal Opinion
Lazarus v. Sherman
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided January 6, 2011No. 2008-228-AppealPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice INDEGLIA, for the Court.
After nearly thirteen years of litigation, during which time this case was dismissed from the Superior Court for failure to prosecute and later reinstated, the parties came before the Supreme Court for oral argument on December 1, 2010. In this intrafamily dispute, the plaintiff, Leonard I. Lazarus, brought an action against the defendants, the Shermans, seeking the interpretation of two wills and a trust contained in them and a codicil to one of them. The trial justice found that the testators’ intent could be determined from the four corners of the…
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