90 So. 2d 39 - In Re Lyons'estate’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2016
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Madden v. Glosztonyi Savings & Trust Co. · Bailey v. Smith · Andrews v. Andrews · Marble v. Treasurer & Receiver General · State Ex Rel. Miller v. Aldridge
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]hether ... [an estate by the entireties] exists as the result of the acquisition of property by and in the names of both husband and wife must be determined by a consideration of the nature and terms of the transaction as portraying the intent of the parties and of the rules of law applicable thereto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Joint owners payable to either or to survivor, subject to agreement on signature card.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We would have no difficulty in sustaining an estate by the entireties in personal property if it had been evidenced by a bill of sale to the husband and wife, as such, and where there was evidenced the requisite intent to create such an estate, but we are not convinced that the mere purchase of personal property out of a joint bank account of the husband and wife, and from the contributions from each out of their separate funds, plus the facts that the furniture was billed to Adobar [a joint account] and that some of the invoices were made out to Mr. and Mrs. Riley, were sufficient, in the absence of any showing of any specific intent, to set up an estate by the entireties in such furniture. It is true that the title to personal property may pass by delivery, but there must also be an intent to create an estate by the entireties, and such intent ought to be made clearly to appear since upon the decease of one spouse the survivor would become the sole and complete owner of the property to the exclusion of the children and creditors.” (at p. 454. Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Marchini
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