Black v. Wiesner

On August 17, 1973, this court filed its opinion in the case of Black v. Wiesner, 112 R. I. 261, 308 A.2d 511 (1973). We therein held that the trial justice had erred in finding that the respondent had established by clear and convincing evidence that a gift in praesenti had been made by a decedent to the respondent of stock in the possession of Rhode Island Hospital Trust Bank on November 20, 1961. We thereupon concluded that the stock held by the bank was property of the decedent and should be included in the inventory of the estate filed by the executor, and we remanded the case to the…