Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. v. J. B. Farnum Co.

This case is before us on the defendant’s exception to the decision of the trial justice in favor of the plaintiff, entered after a trial before him, begun with a jury but completed without one by agreement of the parties. It is an action of assumpsit brought by the plaintiff as trustee under a residuary devise and legacy by the will’of John Johnston, late of the city of Woonsocket in this state, deceased. It was brought to recover rent due under an indenture of February 28, 1924, by which John Johnston demised certain real estate in that city to the defendant for a term of years ending…