IN RE ESTATE OF JOHNSON

No. 69-716.

240 So.2d 840 (1970)

In re ESTATE of Axel P. JOHNSON, Deceased. Pearl B. JOHNSON, Appellant, v. Warren A. JOHNSON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied December 2, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B. Freeman, of Belcher & Fleece, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Joseph H. Lang, of Baynard, McLeod & Lang, St. Petersburg, for appellee.


LILES, Judge.

The County Judge refused to allow the value of Michigan property previously conveyed to be used in the admeasurement of dower to a Florida wife. Appellant here assigns this as error and we are called upon to answer the question which is one of first impression in Florida.

Dower in Florida is entirely a creature of statute. Our problem here is solely one of statutory interpretation, and it involves real property, not movable property. I find nothing...

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