Mowry v. Mowry

This is an appeal from the order of the Municipal Court of the city of Providence directing the administratrix of the will annexed to sell certain real estate for the purpose of paying the debts of the estate, the personal estate being insufficient.

Jencks Mowry died in 1898, leaving a number of children by his first marriage who are the appellants here, and a widow, his second wife, who is the administratrix, with the will annexed, and the appellee here.

The will of the deceased was probated. That will contained but one devise, and that was of the testator's farm in Smithfield to his grandson.…