Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. v. Johnston

This is a bill in equity for the construction of the will of John Johnston, late of the city of Pawtucket, deceased, and for instructions to the trustee thereunder as to whom and in what proportion it shall distribute the trust property, the trust having terminated. When the cause was ready for hearing for final decree the superior court certified it to this court for our determination pursuant to general laws 1938, chapter 545, §7.

The testator died on October 21, 1942 leaving his wife Lilly H. Johnston surviving him. He had executed his will on September 2, 1937. Under the first thirty-one…