Malinou v. Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank

Joslin J.

This is an appeal from a Superior Court judgment dismissing Martin Malinou’s appeal from a decree of the Probate Court of the City of Providence. The case has its origins in the interstate death of Ernest V. Beazley in 1961. Malinou was then a member of the bar of this state and Public Administrator of the city of Providence. In his latter capacity he contested the petition of an allegedly “remote cousin” of the decedent for the appointment of Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank (Hospital Trust) as administrator of the Beazley Estate and sought that appointment for himself.…