FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MIAMI v. BOBCIK

No. 60-685.

132 So.2d 299 (1961)

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MIAMI, as Trustee, and Homestead Hospital, Appellants, v. Marian BOBCIK, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

August 10, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott, McCarthy, Preston, Steel & Gilleland, Miami, and Goehring, McWhinney & Grubbs, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellants.

Daniel Sepler, Hialeah, Redfearn, Ferrell & Simon, Miami, for appellee.

Before PEARSON, TILLMAN, C.J., and HORTON and CARROLL, JJ.


CARROLL, CHAS., Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether one who is adopted after the death of a testator by an adopter who also dies, may take under a will as being a living descendant of the adopter. The factual background against which the arguments are projected is sufficiently presented by the final decree, which was as follows: "This cause came on for final hearing upon the complaint of the plaintiff, the answer of the defendant, The First National...

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