L. A. METCALF AND ALPHA METCALF, HIS WIFE,
v.
MARY OLA BARROW, A WIDOW, ERESS E. MATTHEWS, JOINED BY HER HUSBAND, W. S. MATTHEWS, JULIA MITCHELL, JOINED BY HER HUSBAND, JOHN F. MITCHELL, AND WALTON H. OWENS
L. A. METCALF AND ALPHA METCALF, HIS WIFE,
MARY OLA BARROW, A WIDOW, ERESS E. MATTHEWS, JOINED BY HER HUSBAND, W. S. MATTHEWS, JULIA MITCHELL, JOINED BY HER HUSBAND, JOHN F. MITCHELL, AND WALTON H. OWENS
150 Fla. 847
Florida Supreme Court (1942)
Negative Treatment
Also reported at: 9 So. 2d 98
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Opinion of the Court
The record and the briefs in this case have been examined and the judgment appealed from is reversed on authority of the companion case of Green v. Barrow, et al., decided May 19, 1942, the questions in each case being similar.
Reversed.
*848BROWN, C. J., WHITFIELD, TERRELL, BUFORD, CHAPMAN and ADAMS, JJ., concur.
THOMAS, J., dissents.
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