Chile v. Beck

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 Farm, a parcel of land of almost sixty acres situated in the town of Tiverton on the westerly side of Punkateest Neck Road. The litigants are the plaintiff, Robert Adams Chile (Robert), the farm’s faithful caretaker of forty years; and the defendants, Horace P. Beck, Jr. (Horace), Dorothy’s son, and Bernard and Geraldine Taradash, who purchased the farm from Horace sometime…