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YATES v. COMMERCIAL BANK & TRUST CO.

No. 82-2478.

432 So.2d 725 (1983)

William O. YATES, As Successor Personal Representative of the Estate of Marion McDonald Cahill, Deceased, Appellant, v. COMMERCIAL BANK & TRUST COMPANY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 7, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Byrd V. Duke, Jr., North Miami, for appellant.

Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley and James S. Maxwell, Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL and NESBITT, JJ.

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

On October 17, 1981, Emmett E. McDonald, acting as the personal representative of the estate of Marion Cahill, deceased, wrote a check to himself, individually, on the estate checking account in the Commercial Bank & Trust Company. The instrument contained an obvious variance between the numbers and the written words which indicated the amount of the check. It said:

"Pay to the order of Emmett E. McDonald...

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