IN RE ESTATE OF CRAFT

No. 74-1282.

320 So.2d 874 (1975)

In re ESTATE of James E. CRAFT, Deceased.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Klein of Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson & McKeown, West Palm Beach, for appellants, Thomas Craft, Executor of the Estate of James E. Craft and The First National Bank of Bluefield, Bluefield, W. Va.

Joseph D. Farish, Jr. and Robert V. Romani, of Farish & Farish, West Palm Beach, for appellees, Paul E. Craft and Jerry Elliot Craft.


PER CURIAM.

Upon consideration of the briefs and oral argument and after examination of the record on appeal we are of the opinion that the trial court erred in determining that the inter vivos trust created by decedent was invalid.

It has been held that in order to constitute a valid trust (in personalty) three circumstances must occur: sufficient words to raise it; a definite subject matter; and a certain and ascertained object. Bay Biscayne Co. v. Baile...

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