Case Name: JEWISH NATIONAL FUND, COUNCIL OF ISRAEL, HADASSAH-MIAMI BEACH CHAPTER and Arthritis Foundation, Appellants, v. Joseph REINMAN, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1989-08-01
Citations: 546 So. 2d 1165
Docket Number: No. 89-496
Parties: JEWISH NATIONAL FUND, COUNCIL OF ISRAEL, HADASSAH-MIAMI BEACH CHAPTER and Arthritis Foundation, Appellants, v. Joseph REINMAN, Appellee.
Judges: Before HUBBART and FERGUSON and GERSTEN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 546
Pages: 1165–1165

Head Matter:
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND, COUNCIL OF ISRAEL, HADASSAH-MIAMI BEACH CHAPTER and Arthritis Foundation, Appellants, v. Joseph REINMAN, Appellee.
No. 89-496.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Aug. 1, 1989.
Newman & Tempkins, and Harry Temp-kins, North Miami Beach, for appellants.
Ruden, Barnett, McClosky, Smith, Schus-ter & Russell and Samuel Smith, for appel-lee.
Before HUBBART and FERGUSON and GERSTEN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal from a final summary judgment which determined that a bequest in a testator's will to a beneficiary had not lapsed and that the beneficiary was accordingly entitled to take under the will. We affirm based on a holding that the bequest did not lapse under the terms of the will when the beneficiary was not located by the personal representative of the estate within one year after the testator's demise. We reach this result because (1) the will outright bequeaths 50% of the testator's estate to the beneficiary, and (2) the will's use of precatory language ("I request") did not, as urged, create a condition precedent to this bequest in the event the beneficiary could not be located within one year of the testator's demise. See In re Eggleston's Estate, 129 Cal.App.2d 601, 277 P.2d 469, 472 (Ct.App.1954); Wooster School Corp. v. Hammerer, 410 So.2d 524, 527 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982); In re Lesher's Estate, 365 So.2d 815, 818-19 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979); see also In re Hopkin's Estate, 349 So.2d 663, 664 (Fla. 4th DCA 1977).
Affirmed.