LANE v. PALMER FIRST NATIONAL B. & T. CO. OF SARASOTA

No. 7409.

213 So.2d 301 (1968)

Mary F. LANE, Individually, and As Executrix of the Estate of John P. Lane, Deceased, Appellant, v. PALMER FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF SARASOTA, As Trustee, Etc., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

August 14, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ezra J. Regen and John J. Blair, of Blair, Regen & Williams, Venice, for appellant.

C.L. McKaig, Sarasota, and Worth Dexter, Jr., of Dexter, Conlee & Bissell, Sarasota, for appellee Palmer First Nat. Bank.

Francis C. Millican, of Millican, Whitney & Trawick, Sarasota, as guardian ad litem for Emily Payson Lane and Charlotte Williams Lane, minor appellees.

Donald T. Senterfitt and Robert L. Manly, of Akerman, Senterfitt, Eidison, Mesmer & Robbinson, Orlando, for Florida Bankers Ass'n, amici curiae.


OVERTON, BEN F., Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from a final decree holding an inter vivos trust valid and not illusory. We agree and affirm.

The plaintiff widow, Mary F. Lane, individually, and as executrix of the Estate of John P. Lane, filed a complaint seeking to have a revocable inter vivos trust created by her deceased husband declared of no force and effect on the grounds that her husband, as settlor, retained exclusive dominion and control over...

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