Morgan v. Amerada Hess Corp.

McCORD, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from a summary final judgment based upon a finding by the trial court in a quiet title suit below that “the claim of the plaintiffs is barred by applicable statutes of limitation.” We reverse.

Appellants (plaintiffs below) are the four children of Ernest Leslie Norred (hereafter referred to as Norred) who died on August 8,1973. Norred was declared insane by the county judge in and for Escambia County, Florida, on February 23, 1941, at which time the oldest appellant was five years old and the youngest not yet born. Norred was committed to the Florida State…