| Name |
Lefferts Lamont Mabie |
| Suffix |
Jr. |
| Birth |
5 May 1925 |
Bronxville, Westchester County, New York  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
7 Apr 1930 |
Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey [3] |
- Leffert Mabie, Head, M, W, 33, M, age at first marriage 28, New York, New York, New York, foreman, machine works
Margarete Mabie, Wife, F, W, 30, M, age at first marriage 27, New York, Germany, New York
Leffert Mabie, Son, M, W, 4, S, New York, New York, New York
Jules Mabie, Son, M, W, 2, S, New York, New York, New York
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| Census |
12 Apr 1940 |
2424 Fairmont Avenue, Lakeland, Polk County, Florida [4] |
- Lefferts Mabie, Head, M, W, 44, M, completed 4 years high school, born in New York, residence 1 April 1935 was Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey, Salesman, Wholesale Auto Company, wages earned in 1939 - $5000+
Margueriette Mabie, Wife, F, W, 40, M, completed 4 years high school, born in New York, residence 1 April 1935 was Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey
Leffert Mabie, Son, M, W, 14, S, attended school, completed 2 years high school, born in New York, residence 1 April 1935 was Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey
Ralph Mabie, Son, M, W, 12, S, attended school, completed 7 years school, born in New York, residence 1 April 1935 was Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey
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| Witness-Obituary |
28 Sep 1948 |
Tampa, Florida [5] |
- Lefferts Lamont Mabie, 52, manager of the Lackland office of the Package Research Laboratory, died Friday at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC, where he had been undergoing treatment for the past three months, according to word received here today
Mr Mabie had lived in Florida for the past 13 years and for the past 10 had been connected with the laboratory in Lakeland. He was a member of the Congregational Church of Brooklyn, NY, the American Legion post at Rockaway, NJ, and the Masonic Lodge at Rockaway. Surviving are his widow, Mrs Marguerite M Mabie, and two sons, Lefferts L Mabie, Jr, and J Ralph Mabie.
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| Census |
1 Apr 1950 |
Palmetto Avenue, Wauchula, Hardee County, Florida [6] |
- Lefferts L Mabie Jr, Head, White, Male, 24, Married, born in New York, General Attorney at Law, own account
Mirianne M Mabie, Wife, White, Female, 24, Married, born in Florida, Secretarial, Research Division, Phosphate Co., lived in Polk County, Florida in 1949, parents born in US, completed 5 years of college, worked 32 weeks in 1949 earning $1760, husband earned $1200, veteran of WWII
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| Info |
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| Note |
- from web page of his law firm we learn: "Lefferts L. Mabie, Jr. (1925 - 1996) Leff Mabie received his law degree from the University of Florida in 1948. He was continuously active in civil trial practice, specializing in personal injury/wrongful death and insurance bad faith litigation, having handled over fifty excess judgment cases against insurance companies, including 28 jury trials to recover excess over policy limits (with only one adverse verdict). He was the leading authority in Florida on the subject of insurance bad faith litigation. Mr. Mabie was a past president of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers and the Escambia/Santa Rosa Bar Association (First Judicial Circuit). He was a former director of the American Board of Trial Advocates and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Trial Lawyers Section of The Florida Bar. Mr. Mabie was listed in the publication "The Best Lawyers in America" up through the time of his death, and was awarded the Al J. Cone Career Leadership Award as trial lawyer of the year by the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers in 1992. Additionally, in 1996, Mr. Mabie received the "Perry Nichols Award," which is the highest honor bestowed by the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, and is in recognition for lifetime achievements in the pursuit of justice. He was a regular lecturer before the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, The Florida Bar, the American Board of Trial Advocates and the American Trial Lawyers Association in the field of trial practice and insurance bad faith litigation. He successfully tried three cases which became the subject of annotations in American Law Reports."
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| Death |
20 Mar 1996 |
Gulf Breeze, Santa Rosa County, Florida [7] |
| Obituary |
22 Mar 1996 |
Pensacola, Florida [8] |
- Lefferts Mabie, 70, former Florida Academy of Trial Lawyers president, died Wednesday in Pensacola of a suspected heart attack. Police drew that conclusion after his Jeep Cherokee drifted off the Parkway and struck a concrete barrier near the Pensacola Bay Bridge. Mr. Mabie, a former Hardee County Judge and Florida's 1991 Trial Lawyer of the Year, had a history of heart problems, police said. A Gulf Breeze resident, Mr. Mabie was a senior partner in the Pensacola law firm of Levin, Middlebrooks, Mabie, Thomas, Mayes & Mitchell, which once counted former Gov. Reubin Askew as a partner; Gov. Lawton Chiles recently appointed Mr. Mabie to the judicial nominating commission for the Florida Supreme Court.
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| Obituary |
22 Mar 1996 |
Pensacola, Florida [9] |
- Lefferts L. Mabie, Jr. died Wednesday March 20, 1996. He was 70. Mr. Mabie was born in Bronxville, N.Y. May 6, 1925 to Lefferts L. Mabie, Sr. and Margrete Cronjaeger Mabie. He graduated from Lakeland High School in 1941 and served in the 8th Air Force during World War II as a B-17 pilot and flew 25 missions over Europe. Mr. Mabie graduated from the University of Florida, College of Law with the LLB degree (now designated as Juris Doctor) in 1948. He served as County Judge in Hardee County, Florida, before moving to Pensacola in 1965. He practiced law in Pensacola with J. B. Hopkins and later joined the law firm of Levin, Middlebrooks, Mabie, Thomas, Mayes and Mitchell. In 1967 when he became a senior partner. Mr. Mabie served as president of the circuit bar association of the Tenth Judicial Circuit in Central Florida and First Judicial Circuit in Northwest Florida. He held all offices of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers and served as a director of th American board of Trial Advocates and a member of the Executive Committee of the Trials Lawyers Section of the Florida Bar. Mr. Mabie had recently been named a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Florida College of Law and was appointed by the Governor of Florida to the Judicial Nominating Committee for the Supreme court of Florida. Mr. Mabie was listed in the publication "The Best Lawyers in America" and was honored with the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers in 1992. He was a regular lecturer before the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years; Marianne Munson Smith Mabie; two children, Margrete Mabie, granddaughter Charlotte Wakely Shows, all of Gulf Breeze and a brother J. Ralph Mabie, Esq. of North Palm Beach.
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| Reference Number |
15051 |
| Person ID |
I14974 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1925 - 1996 (70 years)
