Snook v. Sessoms

Weltner, Justice.

Snook, Prevatt, and Hinson, who are income beneficiaries of the A. K. Sessoms trust, brought suit against the trustees. The trustees then filed a petition for declaratory relief in another county to determine whether these beneficiaries had violated the terms of the in terrorem clause of the trust, and thereby had extinguished their rights as beneficiaries. The trial court declared their rights terminated. We granted to the beneficiaries an interlocutory appeal.

Section 28 of the trust provides: “The trust herein created shall cease and determine for any life beneficiary who…