IN RE LYONS' ESTATE


90 So.2d 39 (1955)

In re ESTATE of E.L. LYONS, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

On Rehearing October 12, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hardee & Hardee, C.J. Hardee and Paul Game, Tampa, for appellants.

Oliver C. Maxwell and Laurens S. Jones, Tampa, for Mollie Lyons.

James D. Bruton, Jr., Plant City, for Executors of the Estate of E.L. Lyons, deceased, appellees.


THOMAS, Justice.

In his will E.L. Lyons devised one-half of his estate to his widow, made bequests to certain persons and left the residue to a nephew and his wife. Two savings accounts and some government bonds are involved in this litigation. If they constituted estates by the entireties, as the county judge found initially and the circuit judge held on appeal, they belong to the widow; if not, they must be administered.

One of the accounts was opened in...

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