Brown v. Taylor
District Court of Appeal of Florida
1Opinion of the Court
RYDER, Judge.
Nellie Ruth Weathersbee died August 4, 1982 at the age of eighty-eight years. No lineal descendants survived her. Her 1977 will provided that her house and an eighty-acre parcel of land upon which the house is located would pass to her great, great nephew, Samuel Thomas Taylor (appellee). Her four nieces (one of which is personal representative of her estate and appellant in this appeal) were to receive the residue of her estate (an estimated value at the time of the final judgment of $750,000.00).
At Mrs. Weathersbee’s invitation, appel-lee began living in her home with her in…
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