Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1983

Curran v. Cronin

Curran v. Cronin
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided May 11, 1983 · Anstead, Glickstein, Walden
436 So. 2d 190; 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 22638 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Curran v. Cronin

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

We affirm upon the authority of Poe v. Estate of Levy, 411 So.2d 253, 256 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982).

AFFIRMED.

GLICKSTEIN and WALDEN, JJ., concur. ANSTEAD, J., dissents with opinion.

Dissenting Opinion

ANSTEAD, Judge,

dissenting:

In a set of poorly drafted pleadings the appellant attempted to recover on a number of theories.1 Some of these theories were clearly barred, either by this court’s decision in Poe v. Estate of Levy or by appellant’s failure to file a timely claim with the appel-lee estate. However, I believe appellant is entitled to a trial on the merits as to her claim for the reasonable value of services rendered to the deceased. In Poe we sustained the dismissal of a similar claim on *191procedural grounds. However, we also recognized that such a claim, if it could be properly established, would not necessarily be barred just because the parties are cohabiting together in a marital type relationship. See Matter of Estate of Steffes, 95 Wis.2d 490, 290 N.W.2d 697 (1979) cited favorably in Poe.

. Appellate counsel was not representing Annette Curran at the time the original pleadings were drafted and filed.

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