Industrial National Bank v. Drysdale

This is a bill in equity for the construction of a will. The cause was heard in the superior court on bill, answers, replication, and proof. When it was ready for hearing for final decree the trial justice, as required by gen eral laws 1938, chapter 545, §7, certified it to this court for our determination.

The question to be determined is whether the twelfth paragraph of the will of Robert Drysdale, late of the town of Westerly, deceased, evinces a general charitable intent on the part of the testator or merely a specific intent to benefit a particular charitable corporation. By that…