Reynolds v. Stevens

This is a bill in equity brought to establish a constructive trust in certain specific funds in the respondent’s possession. The cause was heard on bill, answer, replication and proof by a justice of the superior court, who granted the relief prayed for. A decree was accordingly entered and the respondent then appealed to this court.

The evidence shows that the complainants are the executors of the will of Henry J. Reynolds, who died in Providence on November 15, 1939. At the time of his death the testator was ninety years old and unmarried. For a number of years he had lived alone on the…