PENNINGTON v. MUNROE & CHAMBLISS NATIONAL BANK OF OCALA

No. L-213.

227 So.2d 240 (1969)

Virginia Carmichael PENNINGTON and Martha Carmichael Swanson, Appellants, v. The MUNROE AND CHAMBLISS NATIONAL BANK OF OCALA, As Executor of the Estate of Weller L. Carmichael, Deceased, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

Rehearing Denied November 4, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greene, Ayres, Swigert, Cluster & Tucker, Ocala, for appellants.

James M. Smith, Jr., Ocala, for appellees.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs have appealed a final judgment construing the provisions of a last will and testament executed by their deceased grandfather.

The trial court rejected plaintiffs' contention that the will devised only a life estate in the disputed property to their father, with remainder over to them. On the contrary, the court held that the legal effect of the will was to devise the property to appellants' father in fee simple, which property constituted...

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