Price v. Austin National Bank

O’QUINN, Justice.

The Austin National Bank, in its capacity as independent executor of the estate of Lillian Price Swann, deceased, filed this suit in December of 1971 for declaratory judgment construing the will of decedent with respect to specified testamentary trusts and the Bank’s powers and duties under the will in acting as executor. Seventeen persons named in the will, two banking institutions acting as trustees under the will, and the attorney general of Texas were named defendants, the attorney general being joined under authority of Article 4412a, Vernon’s Ann.Tex.Civ.Sts., by reason…