WILLIE JAMES BROWN, APPELLANT,

v.

THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• Crawford v. Jannie Barker, 64 So. 3d 1246 (Fla. 2011)
  …252] proceeds, the beneficiary of the proceeds is determined by looking only to the insurance contract.” Id. (quoting Cooper v. Muccitelli (Cooper I), 661 So. 2d 52, 54 (Fla. 2d DCA 1995)). The district court recognized conflict with Davis v. Davis, 301 So. 2d 154 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974), Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. White, 242 So. 2d 771 (Fla. 4th DCA 1970), and Raggio v. Richardson, 218 So. 2d 501 (Fla. 3d DCA 1969), wherein the courts looked beyond the life insurance policies to the settlement agreements. Cooper…
• Bacardi v. Bacardi, 386 So. 2d 1201 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980)
  …language used. See Sosnowitz v. Sosnowitz, 342 So. 2d 524 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977). Nor does a reading of the entire agreement clarify what the parties meant when they said that the husband shall pay all the obligations of the parties. See Davis v. Davis, 301 So. 2d 154 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974). Provisions of a property settlement agreement are interpreted by courts like any other contract. Underwood v. Underwood, 64 So. 2d 281 (Fla. 1953); Sosnowitz v. Sosnowitz, supra; Davis v. Davis, supra. When a contract is ambiguo…
• Murphy v. Murphy, 370 So. 2d 403 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979)
  …ip from an entireties to a tenancy in common form, in itself, bars a special equities action, is without merit. It cannot be inferred from the Agreement that the Wife intended to relinquish any rights not expressly set forth therein. Davis v. Davis, 301 So. 2d 154 (3rd DCA, 1974).” [Emphasis supplied]. As to the separate properties, the trial judge found: 1. The marital residence: ** [*406] “Thus, it was impossible for any separate funds of the Husband’s to have been used in the acquisition of the Coral Ga…

Authorities Cited

• Peterson v. State, 237 So. 2d 223 (Fla. 1st DCA 1970)
• Yanks v. State, 273 So. 2d 401 (Fla. 3d DCA 1973)
• Jenkins v. State, 267 So. 2d 886 (Fla. 2d DCA 1972)
• Brown v. State, 266 So. 2d 689 (Fla. 3d DCA 1972)
• Greenaway v. State, 266 So. 2d 689 (Fla. 3d DCA 1972)