DePRYCKER v. BROWN

No. GG-382.

358 So.2d 1140 (1978)

Eva Lana Caraway DePRYCKER, Linda Ruth Caraway Forshee, Anita Leola Caraway and Bettie S. Caraway, As Guardian of the Property of Howard Wilson Caraway, Jr., a Minor, Appellants, v. Myra Jean Whitehurst BROWN and Barnett Bank of Jacksonville, N.A., As Trustee under the Last Will and Testament of Howard W. Caraway, Deceased, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Harris Dittmar of Bedell, Bedell, Dittmar & Zehmer, Jacksonville, for appellants.

Paul R. Sanford and Donald C. Wright of Rogers, Towers, Bailey, Jones & Gay, Walter R. Stedeford, Jacksonville, for appellees.


MASON, ERNEST E. (Circuit Judge, (Retired), Associate Judge.

Appellants are the natural children of Howard W. Caraway, now deceased, by his wife of a second marriage. Appellee, Myra Jean Whitehurst Brown, is the natural child of Caraway by his first marriage. Caraway's first marriage ended in divorce and his first wife later remarried. The first wife was granted custody of Myra Jean in the divorce decree entered in 1940. Thereafter, in 1951, Myra Jean was adopted...

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