Fuller v. Fuller
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval county. Mrs. Josephine A. Fuller, wife of G-eorge Fuller, the appellant, died in Florida in the year 1870, leaving her husband and one child, the appellee, who was a minor. This suit was brought in the court below by bill filed in 1882 by appellee, by her next friend, against appellant, for an accounting for the property left by Mrs. Fuller at her death, and the income and profits thereof, for a receiver and for other relief.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval county. Mrs. Josephine A. Fuller, wife of G-eorge Fuller, the appellant, died in Florida in the year 1870, leaving her husband and one child, the appellee, who was a minor. This suit was brought in the court below by bill filed in 1882 by appellee, by her next friend, against appellant, for an accounting for the property left by Mrs. Fuller at her death, and the income and profits thereof, for a receiver and for other relief. The other facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Raney
I. The second ground of appeal is the finding of the Master that the stock of goods in the appellant’s possession at the death of his wife was her property. The answer to the bill of complaint denied that it was. Tho Master in his report charged appellant with $1,622.43, “ half cost of the original stock and half of amount, as shown by letters in evidence, of Mrs. Fuller, that went into the store,” and with $1,558.24 interest on the former amount. This being excepted to, the Chancellor sustained the exception and directed the Master to- charge the appellant with $900, as. one half of the…
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