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AMERICAN RED CROSS v. ESTATE OF HAYNSWORTH

Nos. 97-101, 97-95, 97-87, 96-3496, 96-3473, 96-3443 and 96-3440.

708 So.2d 602 (1998)

AMERICAN RED CROSS, United Way, Rutherford H. Spessard, Jr., The Salvation Army, John D. Barker, James T. Barker, Sr., Frances V. Lawrence, James N. Barker, Jr., Pamela B. Gordon, (the "Barker Group"), and Mary Gallagher, Beneficiaries, Appellants, v. In re ESTATE OF John Anderson HAYNSWORTH, Jr., Deceased, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied April 22, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen & Quentel and Arthur J. England, Jr., and John G. Crabtree; Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell and Samuel S. Smith, for appellants American Red Cross and United Way of Dade County.

Samuel Spencer Blum, for Rutherford H. Spessard, Jr.; George Elias, Jr., for appellants John D. Barker, James N. Barker, Jr., Frances V. Lawrence, James T. Barker, Pamela B. Gordon and Mary Gallagher (the "Barker Group").

Heller and Kaplan and Daniel Neal Heller and Dwight Sullivan and Joseph Currier Brock, for appellee.

Before JORGENSON, LEVY and GREEN, JJ.

LEVY, Judge.

Three charitable organizations and several relatives who are the beneficiaries of a large estate appeal from a final judgment that admitted a certain will into probate and declared two other competing wills invalid. For the reasons contained herein, we reverse and remand.

Mr. John Anderson Haynsworth, Jr., enjoyed great financial success as a result of real property investments in Miami Beach. He was married for fifty years to Maybelle Haynsworth...

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