Roberts v. Garbett

This is a bill in equity brought by nineteen complainants against three individual respondents and the Pawtucket Institution for Savings, praying that said institution be declared trustee of certain deposits therein for the benefit of the estate of one John Roberts and his heirs and be directed to deliver said funds to such persons as are entitled thereto. The cause is in this court on the complainants’ appeal from a decree of the Superior .Court sustaining the demurrer of the respondent institution to the bill of complaint.

The bill alleges that in December, 1890, John Roberts deposited $500…