Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. v. Ormond Village Improvement Ass'n

TERRELL, J.:

In November, 1918, Martha A. Clarke, a maiden lady, of Ormond, Florida, executed her will in paragraph four of which she devised a life estate in a certain property known as “Coacoochee Cottage” to Arthur B. Curtis for life with remainder to the “Trustees of Anderson and Price Memorial Building of Ormond, Florida.” The Hotel Ormond was given an option to purchase the property at the death of the life tenant if it desired to do so.

This suit was instituted by the Ormond Village Improvement Association praying for a construction of the foregoing provision of the will. The defendants…