Fay Stokes Stovall, Louis Stokes Billings, Edith Stokes Rice and John W. Stokes, Appellants v. Clifford G. Stokes…

Summary

The Florida Supreme Court held that the deed Susan M. Stokes executed to her son Clifford G. Stokes was a mortgage, not an absolute conveyance, and therefore reversed the lower court's declaration of Clifford's fee simple ownership of the Riverside lot and related notes. The Court affirmed the lower court's order that an accounting of Clifford's handling of the Allen Banks Stokes estate be taken and remanded that issue for further proof. All other relief sought by the appellants was denied.