O'NEILL v. SACHER

Nos. 87-2513, 87-2514.

526 So.2d 771 (1988)

Jessie O'NEILL, Florida National Bank, As Trustee under the Indenture of Trust of Rose Mary Wilson Austin 1974 Trust, Appellants, v. Charles P. SACHER, Individually and As Trustee, Charles P. Sacher, P.A., and Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder and Carson, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fox, Carpenter, O'Neill & Shannon and Bruce O'Neill, Milwaukee, Wis., Ridge & Crawford, Jacksonville, for appellants.

Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick & Strickroot and Henry Burnett and Sheryll Martens Dunaj and Ronald J. Marlowe, Miami, for appellees.

Before BARKDULL, FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.


FERGUSON, Judge.

This appeal is brought from a summary judgment entered for a defendant-attorney on a claim by a trust beneficiary for professional negligence in drafting a trust instrument.

Rose Austin executed a will establishing a testamentary trust for her husband and designating her daughter, Jessie O'Neill, as the primary beneficiary of a pour-over trust. The daughter's trust instrument, the will, and a codicil to the will contained provisions regarding...

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