Carr v. MacDonald

This bill in equity is brought by the executor of the will of Clara Ethel Rocheford, late of the city of Woonsocket, deceased, to set aside the transfer of three savings accounts purporting to have been made by her to the respondent Lydia Gertrude MacDonald on November 17, 1941. After hearing on bill, answer, replication and proof, a final decree was entered in the superior court granting the prayer of the bill. The cause is before us on respondents’ appeal from that decree.

The testatrix, who was seventy-two years old and a widow, died in the Woonsocket Hospital on November 19, 1941. The…