DOROTHY CONNER SHANK, JOINED BY HER HUSBAND AND NEXT FRIEND, WILLIAM C. SHANK, APPELLANTS,
v.
W. H. TUNNICLIFFE, AS LIQUIDATOR OF THE STATE BANK OF ORLANDO & TRUST COMPANY, OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. | 1933-01-09
Buford, C.J. and Whitfield and Davis, J.J., concur., Terrell and Brown, J. J., dissent., Ellis, J., absent on account of sickness.
107 Fla. 606 Florida Supreme Court (1933) Caution
Also reported at: 145 So. 256
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Synopsis

This case involves a depositor seeking to have her bank deposit classified as a preferred claim after the bank failed. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's decision, denying the preferred claim status.


Holding

No, the depositor is not entitled to have her claim classified as a preferred claim under these circumstances.


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“The State Bank of Orlando and Trust Company failed and was taken in charge by Appellee as Liquidator in August, 1929.”

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Facts & Procedural History

The State Bank of Orlando and Trust Company failed in August 1929, and the appellant had a balance of $12,046.67 in her savings account. She filed a p…

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Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam.

Per Curiam.

The State Bank of Orlando and Trust Company failed and was taken in charge by Appellee as Liquidator in August, 1929. Appellant had a balance of $12,046.67 in the savings department at the time said bank closed and filed her proof of claim with the liquidator as *607the law directs without designating it as a common claim or a preferred claim. The liquidator classified it as a common claim. This suit was brought more than twelve months after the appointment of the liquidator to have it decreed to be a preferred claim and paid as such, a motion to dismiss the bill was granted and this appeal is from that decree.

The record and brief of counsel have been examined and the final decree below is affirmed on authority of Court-right vs. Tunnicliffe, 104 Fla. 720, 140 So. 777.

Affirmed.

Buford, C.J. and Whitfield and Davis, J.J., concur.

Terrell and Brown, J. J., dissent.

Ellis, J., absent on account of sickness.


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    …ment appealed from must be and the same is hereby reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent herewith. STURGIS, C. J., and O’CONNELL, STEPHEN C., A. J., concur. . E.g.: Terranova v. Stearns, 108 Fla. 21, 141 So. 597, 145 So. 256; Collins Ave. & Ocean Investment Co. v. Crawford, 114 Fla. 469, 154 So. 211; Southern Liquor Distributors, Inc. v. Kaiser, 150 Fla. 52, 7 Solid 600. . See: Mizner Land Corp. v. Abbott, 128 Fla. 489, 175 So. 507. . Hart v. Grim, 8 Cir., 179 F. 2d 3…
  • …s.” To further support his contention that the' claim brought in question must be filed with the liquidator as the quoted statute directs, appellant relies on Courtright v. Tunnicliffe, 104 Fla. 720, 140 So. 777; Shank v. Tunnicliffe, 107 Fla. 606, 145 So. 256; Duncan v. Tunnicliffe, 107 Fla. 664, 145 So. 877; Willmer v. Newsome, 110 Fla. 272, 149 So. 3. It is true that these cases all relate to preferred claims, in which the foregoing statute was construed but none of them present or involve a claim para…
  • Willmer v. Newsom, 110 Fla. 272 (Fla. 1933)
    …would extend the time for filing claims when the language of the statute in that respect is plain and unambiguous and the meaning clear and unmistakable,” The allegations in the bill of c’omplaint in the case of Shank v. Tunnicliffe, 107 Fla. 606, 145 So. 256, were quite similar to those in the Courtright case and the ruling in the Courtright case was applied and controlled the decision of the later case. The purpose of such statute to expedite the liquidation of banks and the harm consequent upon delay…

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