INDUSTRIAL NAT. BANK OF RHODE ISLAND v. BENNETT

No. 1416-Appeal.

293 A.2d 924 (1972)

INDUSTRIAL NATIONAL BANK OF RHODE ISLAND et al. v. John B. BENNETT, Jr., et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

July 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hinckley, Allen, Salisbury & Parsons, Woodworth L. Carpenter, George M. Vetter, Jr., for plaintiffs.

Dick & Carty, William F. Hague, Jr., Tillinghast, Collins & Graham, Joachim A. Weissfeld, Richard Jessup, Jr., Providence, for defendants.


ROBERTS, Chief Justice.

This is a petition for construction of the will of the late Mildred S. Bennett under G.L. 1956 (1969 Reenactment) § 9-24-28. The matter was certified to this court as ready for final judgment by order of the Superior Court entered March 16, 1971. The testatrix died on June 14, 1969. Her husband, J. Bamford Bennett, had died on July 25, 1952.

Under his will, J. Bamford Bennett created a marital deduction trust with the income payable...

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