IN RE ESTATE OF PRATT


88 So.2d 499 (1956)

In re Estate of Charles H. PRATT, Deceased. CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA, the Berkshire Industrial Farm, the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, the Seaman's Church Institute and the Tuskegee State Normal and Industrial Institute, Appellants, v. Helen Aubrey PRATT, Drusilla Pratt Gjoerloff, Martha Pratt Shermund, Robert Hyde Pratt, by and through his next friend and natural guardian, Helen Aubrey Pratt and W.E. Winderweedle, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida, Special Division A.

Rehearing Denied July 16, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G.W. Botts, Jacksonville, J.R. Spector, New York City, and Fleming, Jones, Scott & Botts, Jacksonville, for appellants.

J. Thomas Gurney, Orlando, for appellees.


HOBSON, Justice.

Charles H. Pratt departed this life on September 8, 1953, leaving a will executed three days before his death. The will commenced with a conventional revocation clause "hereby expressly revoking all other Wills and Codicils by me at any time made" and gave certain directions pertaining to funeral expenses, costs of administration and taxes. Under Item III of the will, the rest, residue and remainder of the property was to be divided into three equal...

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