Case Name: William B. MILLS as Trustee under the Last Will and Testament and Codicils thereto of Alfred I. duPont, Deceased, Appellant, v. Edward BALL et al., as Trustees under the Last Will and Testament and Codicils thereto of Alfred I. duPont, Deceased, T. Edward Austin, Jr., State Attorney, etc., and the Nemours Foundation, etc., Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1978-02-22
Citations: 358 So. 2d 556
Docket Number: No. II-19
Parties: William B. MILLS as Trustee under the Last Will and Testament and Codicils thereto of Alfred I. duPont, Deceased, Appellant, v. Edward BALL et al., as Trustees under the Last Will and Testament and Codicils thereto of Alfred I. duPont, Deceased, T. Edward Austin, Jr., State Attorney, etc., and the Nemours Foundation, etc., Appellees.
Judges: McCORD, C. J., MILLS, J., and MASON, ERNEST E., Associate Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 358
Pages: 556–557

Head Matter:
William B. MILLS as Trustee under the Last Will and Testament and Codicils thereto of Alfred I. duPont, Deceased, Appellant, v. Edward BALL et al., as Trustees under the Last Will and Testament and Codicils thereto of Alfred I. duPont, Deceased, T. Edward Austin, Jr., State Attorney, etc., and the Nemours Foundation, etc., Appellees.
No. II-19.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Feb. 22, 1978.
John H. Wilbur, of Milam & Wilbur, Jacksonville, for appellant.
William L. Durden and Fred H. Kent, of Kent, Sears, Durden & Kent, F. J. Tassone, Jr., E. Earle Zehmer, of Bedell, Bedell, Ditt-mar & Zehmer, and A. August Quesada, Jr., of Wildt, Quesada, Brock & Skinner, Jacksonville, for appellees.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellant Mills takes this timely interlocutory appeal to review the order of the trial court which granted appellees' motion to strike appellant's amended affirmative defenses to the Supplemental Petition of ap-pellees, plaintiffs below. We affirm, for the reason that the issues sought to be raised by such affirmative defenses are tendered by the appellees in their Supplemental Petition in the trial court and joined therein by appellant by his answer thereto. The material allegations of fact contained in the affirmative defenses which were stricken below may be proven under the general issues or denials raised by the answer of appellant. (Tropical Exterminators, Inc. v. Murray, 171 So.2d 432 (Fla.2d DCA 1965)).
AFFIRMED.
McCORD, C. J., MILLS, J., and MASON, ERNEST E., Associate Judge, concur.