Florance v. Mercantile National Bank at Dallas

OPINION

WOZNIAK, Judge.

This appeal is from an order by the trial court dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction. The dispute concerns whether a letter written on February 15, 1980 was a valid amendment to a trust.

The appellants originally filed this case in Hennepin County on September 14,1981. They requested appointment as co-trustees of a trust pursuant to the amendment. The Mercantile National Bank at Dallas, the original trustee, filed a declaratory judgment action in Texas on December 11, 1981. The Minnesota case was indefinitely stayed. In the Texas case, a summary judgment was…