EDWARDS v. DeSIMONE

No. 508-Appeal.

252 A.2d 327 (1969)

LeRoy EDWARDS and Ellwood Thomas, Executors u/w of Maude A.K. Wetmore; LeRoy Edwards and Charles Moran, Jr., Executors u/w of Edith Malvina K. Wetmore v. Herbert F. DeSIMONE, Attorney General of the State of Rhode Island, et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

April 9, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheffield & Harvey, Richard B. Sheffield, for plaintiffs.

W. Slater Allen, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, Corcoran, Peckham & Hayes, William W. Corcoran, of counsel, for The Preservation Society of Newport County.

Umsted & Going, Joseph B. Going, guardian ad litem, for minor defendants.

Tillinghast, Collins & Tanner, Edwin H. Hastings, Townsend M. McAlpin, for Audrey H. Clinton, Iris S. Veeder and their adult children.

Graham, Reid, Ewing & Stapleton, Joachim A. Weissfeld, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Edward W. Madeira, Jr., for Rita D.S. Thornton, Norrie W. Sellar, Rosalie D.S. Berl, Alix C.S. Sadron and Owen N. Sellar, defendants.

Charles F. Cottam, Amicus Curiae, Mortimer A. Sullivan, guardian ad litem.


OPINION

PAOLINO, J.

This is a complaint1 for the construction of, and instructions relative to, the separate wills of Maude A.K. Wetmore and Edith Malvina K. Wetmore, sisters who died residents of Newport, on November 3, 1951 and March 10, 1966, respectively.

The plaintiffs are Leroy Edwards and Ellwood Thomas, executors under Maude's will, and Charles Moran, Jr., who together with LeRoy Edwards, is executor of Edith...

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