Sumerel v. Pinder

83 So.2d 692 (1955)

Danny SUMEREL, Appellant,

v.

Howard G. PINDER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division B.

December 2, 1955.

Fitzgerald & Wallace, Miami, for appellant.

Roy Lee Jones, Miami, for appellee.

THOMAS, Justice.

This appeal was taken from a final decree denying the appellant any part of a fund offered as a reward by the appellee.

The litigation began with the filing by the appellee of a bill of interpleader from which it appears that his wife met a violent death at the hands of a person unknown. In an attempt to bring the prepetrator of the crime to justice, the appellee…