RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL TRUST COMPANY v. HOPKINS

Eq. No. 2904.

172 A.2d 345 (1961)

RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL TRUST COMPANY, Trustee v. Frank S. HOPKINS et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

June 30, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tillinghast, Collins & Tanner, Colin MacR. Makepeace, Providence, for complainant.

Swan, Keeney & Jenckes, Providence, H. William Radovsky, Fall River, Mass., for respondent Frank S. Hopkins.

Chace and Yatman, Elmer S. Chace, Goodman, Semonoff, Gorin and Blease, Ralph P. Semonoff, for respondents Charles L. Hopkins et al., and respondent Joseph D. Hopkins, Guardian ad litem for Charles L. Hopkins III et al.

Swan, Keeney & Jenckes, Harold S.R. Buffinton (Fall River, Mass.), Robert A. Bogle (Fall River, Mass.), for respondents Charles L. Hopkins, George W. Hopkins, Joseph D. Hopkins.

Elisha C. Mowry, for respondents David Hopkins and Lyman R. Hopkins II.

Sherwood and Clifford, Raymond E. Jordan, William A. Curran, for respondents Elsie D. Pierce, Marilyn L. Jespersen, Joyia L. Hennessy, Benjamin T. Peck III; and for respondent Raymond E. Jordan, Guardian ad litem for Henry L. Jespersen IV et al.

Charles H. Anderson, for respondent George W. Hopkins, Administrator of Estate of George L. Hopkins.

Hinckley, Allen, Salisbury & Parsons, Matthew W. Goring, for respondent Benjamin T. Peck, Jr., individually and as ex'r u/w Elsie G. Peck.

Levy, Carroll, Jacobs & Kelly, Arthur J. Levy, Lawrence S. Gates, for respondent Frank H. Earll, executor u/w Gertrude L. Hopkins.


FROST, Justice.

This is an amended bill of complaint brought by Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company as trustee under the will of Lyman R. Hopkins, late of the city of Cranston, deceased, against his various descendants for the construction of a certain portion of said will and instructions to such trustee. Answers were filed and evidence taken in the superior court and thereafter the cause being ready for hearing for final...

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