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AMERICAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION v. LORD

No. 2041.

132 So.2d 40 (1961)

AMERICAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. Florence U. LORD, individually and as Trustee, and William W. Lord; Bland-Pruitt Lumber & Supply Company, Inc., a Florida corporation; and D.G. Bland Lumber Company, a Georgia corporation authorized to do business in Florida, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

Rehearing Denied August 8, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Lewis Hall, Hall, Hartwell & Douglass, Tallahassee, for appellant.

William O.E. Henry, Holland, Bevis, McRae & Smith, Bartow, and Leo Wotitzky, Wotitzky, Wotitzky & Conrad, Punta Gorda, for appellees.

MILLEDGE, STANLEY, Associate Judge.

The question is whether a description of land in a deed includes accretions. Both sides agree that unless excepted the title to accretions passes with the title to the land to which the accretions are appurtenant. Jefferis v. East Omaha Land Company, 1890, 134 U.S. 178, 10 S.Ct. 518, 33 L.Ed. 872; Mexico Beach Corporation v. St. Joe Paper Company, Fla.App. 1957, 97 So.2d 708

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