Lewis v. Gaillard

How courts have described this case

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• applying the cy pres doctrine and holding that the Florida State College for Women was entitled to receive income from the testator’s estate, even though the testator’s will named the college’s predecessor institution, West Florida Seminary, as the beneficiary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lewis v. Gaillard
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1915-07-13· cited 23×
• Hodge v. Wellman
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1920-10-28· cited 16×
• In Re Williams'estate
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1952-04-25· cited 9×
• St. of Fla., Ex Rel. Town of Crescent v. Holland
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1942-11-17· cited 9×
• SPCA Wildlife Care Center v. Abraham
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-12-14· cited 8×
• Pattillo v. Glenn
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1942-03-06· cited 6×
• In Re Mollard's Estate
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1957-11-26· cited 5×
• Mollard v. Austin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1957-11-26· cited 1×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Schouler
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1883-03-05· cited 37×
• Hoeffer v. Clogan
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1898-02-14· cited 35×
• Moran v. Moran
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1897-12-18· cited 32×
• Gale v. Harby
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1883-06-15· cited 9×
• Jenkins v. Merritt
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1879-06-15· cited 8×
• McDougald v. GilChrist's
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1884-01-15· cited 4×