LEWIS v. HODGES

No. 70-503.

254 So.2d 397 (1971)

Earl L. LEWIS, As Administrator De Bonis Non of the Estate of Joseph Dennis Collins, a/k/a Clarence D. Falvey and a/k/a G. Morancy, Deceased, Relator, v. John G. HODGES, As Judge of the Circuit Court in and for Hillsborough County, Florida, and John A. Curtiss, As Ancillary Administrator of the Estate of Joseph Dennis Collins, Deceased, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 15, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert P. Lima, of Brown, Dixon & Shear, Tampa, for relator.

David A. Maney, Tampa, for respondents.


MANN, Judge.

To Man, the sophisticated scavenger, cash is carrion. Consider this chronology:

April 16, 1966: Joseph Dennis Collins, a siding salesman, registered in a motel at Gulf Breeze, Escambia County, Florida, showing his address as 1131 Airline, New Orleans, Louisiana, died of a heart attack. He was found, by an acquaintance, lying between two beds, and could not be revived. In his wallet was a Georgia...

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