Rogers v. Florida National Bank

RAWLS, Acting Chief Judge.

The primary issue in this cause is the construction of certain provisions of the last will and testament of Maurine Dallas Watkins. The administrator ad litem for the estate of Georgia M. Watkins, the deceased mother of testatrix, appeals from an order of the trial court holding that the controverted provisions of the will did not alter the intent of the testatrix to bequeath certain stock to her mother.

Maurine Dallas Watkins, the testatrix, executed her last will and testament on September 2, 1955, naming numerous universities and other centers of religious and…