Trustees of Jesse Parker Williams Hospital v. Nisbet

1. Florida not being one of the thirteen original colonies or derived from territory belonging thereto, a contract of that State will be construed by the courts of this State according to the statutes and laws here of force, in the absence of any pleaded particular statute of that State governing the construction of the contract, or any pleaded general statute adopting the common law of England.

2. Ordinarily executory contracts require a valuable consideration, or a good consideration founded either on love and affection toward one to whom there is a natural duty, or on some strong moral…