IN RE LEVY'S ESTATE

No. 2684.

141 So.2d 803 (1962)

IN RE ESTATE OF ABE LEVY, DECEASED. SADYE GOODSTEIN, FRANCES KURTZ HENKE, PHILIP I. KURTZ, RUTH KURTZ COOPER, EDWARD KURTZ AND SARRAE ZWANG, APPELLANTS, v. M.L. LEVY, HOWARD LEVY, DAVID LEVY, RALPH LEVY, THELMA SILVERMAN, ROBERT S. FRIEDMAN, MORLEY FRIEDMAN AND LOUISE JANE FRIEDMAN AND THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF TAMPA, TAMPA, FLORIDA, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF ABE LEVY, DECEASED, APPELLEES.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Turbiville of Cason & Turbiville, Tampa, for appellant Sarrae Zwang.

J.A. McClain, Jr., of Mabry, Reaves, Carlton, Fields & Ward, Tampa, for appellants Sadye Goodstein, Frances Kurtz Henke, Philip I. Kurtz, Ruth Kurtz Cooper and Edward Kurtz.

Hugh C. Macfarlane, of Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Tampa, for appellees M.L. Levy, Ralph Levy, David Levy and Thelma Levy Silverman.


WHITE, Judge.

This case involves the right of an adopted child to inherit from his collateral blood kindred.

Abe Levy died intestate in 1959. He had three blood brothers and two blood sisters. One brother, Jacob Abraham Levy, was adopted by a family named Kurtz. He predeceased Abe Levy and left five living children. A sister, Sadye Levy, was adopted by a family named Tapolsky. She is alive and married. The question is whether adoptee Sadye Levy Tapolsky Goodstein...

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