Lowry v. Florida Nat. Bank of Jacksonville

This cause reaches us on appeal from a decree declaring appellee, Administrator c.t.a.d.b.n. of the Estate of Dick Willard Paul, deceased, to be entitled to the contents of a certain safety deposit box in the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, as against Ruth L. Lowry, appellant, who claims the contents as donee of an inter vivos gift from the decedent.

In the fall of 1936, appellant became acquainted with the decedent, an elderly man in his sixties, and in the course of a few months a close friendship developed. Appellant, a widow at the time, had a young daughter who was in ill health and the…