Stewart v. RepublicBank, Dallas, N.A.

OPINION

HILL, Justice.

Margaret Boulboulle Stewart appeals from the trial court’s judgment construing her father’s will in favor of her four nieces, Diane Kirby Briggs, Linda Kirby Keyser, Carolyn Ann Kirby, and Mary Catherine Kirby, in a declaratory judgment action brought by RepublicBank, Dallas, N.A., trustee under the will of J.E. Boulboulle, deceased. She presents twenty-two grounds of error.

We affirm, because we find that provisions of the will which seek to disinherit the four nieces because of the appointment of third persons as their guardians are void as against public policy.

J.E.…