Brown v. J. L. Reed & Son

KANNER, Acting Chief Judge.

Iva Neil Blankenship died on February 25, 1958, leaving a last will executed February 22, 1958, three days before her death. In this will she left to her sole heir at law, a married daughter, Thelma Grace Brown, only ten dollars, with most of her estate, appraised at $15,646.65, being willed to the Hillsborough County Association for the Blind and Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research, Inc. Mrs. Brown sought to avoid the named charitable and scientific bequests upon the ground that they are invalid under section 731.19, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., as amended…