HATHAWAY v. BOYD

No. 66-149.

192 So.2d 8 (1966)

Elmer HATHAWAY, Appellant, v. Joseph A. BOYD, Jr., Administrator of Estate of Anna M. Gardner, Deceased, and the State of Florida, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

Rehearing Denied December 6, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.G. Maxwell, Miami Springs, for appellant.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and Gus Efthimiou, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph A. Boyd, Jr., Hialeah, for appellees.

Before HENDRY, C.J., and PEARSON and SWANN, JJ.


HENDRY, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff filed a complaint for specific performance against the administrator of the estate of Anna M. Gardner based on an alleged oral promise to convey to him certain vacant lots in Hialeah in consideration of services and help he had rendered to her. It was alleged that in reliance upon this promise plaintiff paid all taxes and improvement assessments levied on the property from 1956 through 1965, kept the weeds cut and exercised possession...

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