NABLE v. ESTATE OF GODFREY

Nos. 81-9, 81-10.

403 So.2d 1038 (1981)

Eugene W. NABLE, Appellant, v. The ESTATE OF Mae Clinton GODFREY, Deceased, and the Estate of Eliza Gertrue Godfrey Nable, Deceased, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied September 28, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Lambert, P.A., Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Louis Ossinsky, Jr., of Ossinsky, Krol & Hess, Daytona Beach, for appellees.


COBB, Judge.

This appeal raises the question of the extent to which one spouse, convicted of the manslaughter of the other, can inherit through intestate succession from the decedent. Elizabeth Gertrue Godfrey Nable owned an interest in real property inherited from her mother, Mae Clinton Godfrey, and also a parcel of real property held jointly with her husband, Eugene W. Nable, the appellant. On July 9, 1979, after a drunken argument, the Nables struggled over a...

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