White v. White

This is a petition in equity, brought by the executor of the will of Annie D. White, to determine whether the omission to make provision in the will of the testatrix for the respondent Thomas Henry White, her son by adoption, was “intentional and not occasioned by accident or mistake.” G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 191, § 20. The case comes before us on the appeal of Patrick H. White as a respondent in his individual capacity from the decree entered by the judge that “the failure of said testatrix to make provision in her will for said Thomas Henry White was unintentional and was occasioned by accident…