Case Title: Tod v. Fuller

Citation: 78 So. 2d 713

Docket Number: 

State: florida

Court: Florida Supreme Court

Date: 1955-02-09T00:00:00Z

Document:
78 So. 2d 713 (1955)
Elizabeth S. TOD, Individually and as Executrix under the Last Will and Testament of Andrew Kinnaird Tod, deceased, Appellant,
v.
Constance Peabody FULLER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida. Division A.
February 9, 1955.
Rehearing Denied February 22, 1955.
Winters, Foskett, Cook & Brackett and C.D. Blackwell, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Coe, Richardson & Broberg, Palm Beach, for appellee.
MATHEWS, Chief Justice.
The history and background of this case was set forth in the opinion by this Court in Fuller v. Tod, Fla., 63 So. 2d 316, and it will not be necessary to restate the same here. In that case and in the case now before the Court the execution of mutual and reciprocal wills was not questioned but the agreement and intention of the parties was questioned, and we held that all of the admissible or relevant testimony with reference to the facts surrounding the circumstances, including the agreement if any, became material. In the first final decree, discussed in the case of Fuller v. Tod, supra, the Chancellor found as a fact that the second wife had no notice and that without notice her equities were superior to those claimed by the appellant, who was the daughter of the first wife. We held that the allegations of no notice to the appellee raised a material question of fact, and that the finding of the Chancellor of no notice to the second wife was not supported by the evidence in the case and it was reversed for that reason.
After the mandate of this Court went down, the Chancellor proceeded to take testimony in accordance therewith. At the conclusion of the testimony the Chancellor entered his final decree in which he again held that the second wife had no notice, and said:
No reversible error appears and the decree of the Chancellor should be and the same is hereby affirmed.
TERRELL, SEBRING and ROBERTS, JJ., concur.