Bilotti v. LaSalle

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal taken by the plaintiffs from a judgment of the Superior Court granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ appeal from a decree of the Cranston Probate Court on the grounds that the plaintiffs were not aggrieved parties in interest and did not have standing and that the issue of who were the lawful heirs was res judicata.

The defendant William Fiore was born Francesco Badessa on November 29, 1925, to Anna Badessa. There is no father named on his birth certificate. Subsequent to the birth of her son, Anna Badessa entered into a…