Taylor v. Staples, Trustees
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
This was a suit in equity, brought by the executors and devisees of William Bradford D’Wolf, deceased, against William R. Staples and Edward D. Pearce, trustees of the residuary estate of James D’Wolf, deceased, under the twelfth clause of his will, and James D’Wolf Perry, administrator, with the will annexed, on the estate of the said James D’Wolf, deceased.
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This was a suit in equity, brought by the executors and devisees of William Bradford D’Wolf, deceased, against William R. Staples and Edward D. Pearce, trustees of the residuary estate of James D’Wolf, deceased, under the twelfth clause of his will, and James D’Wolf Perry, administrator, with the will annexed, on the estate of the said James D’Wolf, deceased. The complainants, in substance, set forth and claimed, that upon the books of original entry of James D’Wolf, deceased, there appears on the debit side, in his proper hand-writing, a charge to William Bradford D’Wolf, his son, in these…
1Opinion of the CourtDureee, J.
This bill is brought by the representatives and devisees of the late William Bradford D’Wolf, against the trustees of the residuary estate of the late James DWolf, the father of said William Bradford, and against the administrator, with the will annexed, on the estate of said James D’Wolf. It prays that the defendant trustees may be decreed to release and quitclaim to the complainant devisees a certain lot of land, with the house and improvements thereon, situate in Bristol and described in the bill; and also to pay to the other complainants the sum of one thousand dollars, with interest from…
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