Harvey v. Hubbard

I am of the opinion that the decree appealed from should be reversed under the principles of law enunciated in Webster v. St. Petersburg Federal Savings Loan Association, 155 Fla. 412, 20 So.2d 400, and Crossman v. Naphtali, Fla., 33 So.2d 726. As is held in the cited cases, to effect a gift inter vivos the legal title to the thing given must pass from the donor to the donee. For an alleged donee to be entitled to a thing in controversy on the theory of a gift, he must show an intention on the part of the alleged donor to relinquish the title of the subject matter of the gift to the donee…