Chile v. Beck

452 A.2d 626 (1982)

Robert Adams CHILE

v.

Horace P. BECK, Jr., et al.

No. 80-35-Appeal.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

November 16, 1982.

Tillinghast, Collins & Graham, Providence, Louise Durfee, Robert W. Edwards, Christopher H. Little, for plaintiff.

Moore, Virgadamo & Lynch, Ltd., Jeremiah C. Lynch, Jr., Newport, Thomas T. Brady, Inc., Thomas T. Brady, Tiverton, for defendants.

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This controversy arises from the construction by a Superior Court justice of the May 29, 1969 will of Dorothy Bateman Beck (Dorothy), who at the time of her death in November 1972 owned the Bateman…