Kettler v. Atkinson

SMITH, Justice.

Mercantile National Bank at Dallas, named as Executor and Trustee in the holographic will of Bernice E. Atkinson, now deceased, dated May 9, 1959, filed this action for declaratory relief and construction of the will and the trust or trusts created by the will, pursuant to Article 2524-1, Sec. 2 1 of Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes and Article 7425b-24, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, known as the Texas Trust Act. The petition named as defendants Doris Marie Kettler, Jeane Bernice Shaw and husband, Charles Shaw; Katherine Jeane Kettler, Lynn Elsa Fisher, and Jeane Lynne…