Hillsborough Investment Co. v. Wilcox

CHAPMAN, J.:

The record in this case discloses that Helen M. Wilcox, a widow, during the year 1925, acquired by purchase a home for the sum of $7,000.00, located in Bradenton, Florida, and described as Lot 3 of Block 2 of the Emma Harris Addition to the said City. Helen M. Wilcox, during the Florida land boom in 1925, moved from the State of Massachusetts to the State of Florida. She had two children — one an afflicted daughter, Maude E. Wilcox, who died in April, 1935, and a son, Leroy S. Wilcox, a World War Veteran, who received wounds in the discharge of overseas duties, which required…