Summary
In Seng v. Corns, 58 So.2d 686 (Fla. 1952), the Florida Supreme Court held that in a Florida probate proceeding, the law of Illinois governed the disposition of a joint bank account located in an Illinois bank, and that, accordingly, the surviving joint depositor was entitled to the proceeds of that account, not the executor of the deceased joint depositor whose estate was being probated in Florida.
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May 9, 1952.
Appeal from the Circuit Court, Lake County, T.G. Futch, J.
Walter Warren, Leesburg, for appellant.
H.M. Voorhis and W.H. Poe, Orlando, for appellee.
The Circuit Court held that under the Statutes of Illinois, and construing the deposit contract before it under the Illinois decisions, the survivor of two joint depositors in an Illinois bank took legal title to the deposit and could not be required to deliver the funds to the Florida executor of the deceased joint depositor, no matter which joint depositor furnished the money so deposited. We agree.
No benefit to the jurisprudence of this State could result from our discussion of the law of a sister state. For the information of counsel, we concur in the able and carefully prepared opinion of Honorable T.G. Futch who decided the case in the Circuit Court.
Affirmed.
SEBRING, C.J., and CHAPMAN and MATHEWS, JJ., concur.