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RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL TRUST COMPANY v. BATEMAN

Equity No. 2907.

172 A.2d 84 (1961)

RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL TRUST COMPANY et al., Trustees v. Jonathan H. BATEMAN et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

June 22, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tillinghast, Collins & Tanner, Colin MacR. Makepeace, for complainants.

Edwards & Angell, Walter A. Edwards, Ronald R. Lagueux, for respondent Jonathan H. Bateman.

Sheffield & Harvey, J. Russell Haire, (Newport), for respondent William Sidney Bateman, Jr., individually.

Corcoran, Peckham & Hayes, Edward J. Corcoran, (Newport), for respondent Dorothy Bateman Beck.

John H. Chafee, for respondent Horace Palmer Beck, Jr.

John H. Chafee, Guardian ad litem for Melinda Bateman and Bushnell Bird Beck.

Roberts and Coffey, Matthew E. Ward, for respondent Matthew E. Ward, Guardian ad litem for persons not in being or not ascertainable.

PAOLINO, Justice.

This is a bill in equity for the construction of the fifth clause of the will of William Sidney Bateman, late of the city of Newport, deceased. When the cause was ready for hearing for final decree in the superior court it was certified to this court for our determination in accordance with G.L. 1956, § 9-24-28.

The testator died December 6, 1948 and thereafter his will was duly proved in the probate court of the city of Newport. He...

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