PERDEW v. TOWNLEY

No. 92-1928.

623 So.2d 798 (1993)

Martha Jo Thompkins PERDEW, etc., Appellant, v. Cynthia Augustine TOWNLEY, etc., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

August 24, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard B. Weksler, Coral Gables, for appellant.

Siegfried, Kipnis, Rivera, Lerner & De La Torre and H. Hugh McConnell, Coral Gables, Richard J. Lee, Miami, for appellees.

Before NESBITT, COPE and GODERICH, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

We affirm the declaratory judgment determining that a quitclaim deed given by Ruth McCaskill, the life tenant of certain real property under a will, to Martha Jo Thompkins Perdew conveyed only the grantor's life estate. The remainder interest, a testamentary trust, was contingent, and with the death of the last beneficiary of the trust prior to the death of the life tenant, the trust failed and the remainder reverted to Ruth McCaskill's estate. See...

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