Brinker v. Wobaco Trust Ltd.

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by Cynthia and Brenda Brinker, the daughters of Norman E. Brinker and Maureen Connally Brinker, deceased, to construe or reform three trust instruments so that children born to Norman Brinker’s second marriage would be excluded as beneficiaries of the trusts, and to impose a constructive trust on certain assets removed from Maureen Brinker’s estate and placed in a Bahamian trust which included children of the second marriage. In a bench trial the court refused to admit evidence seeking to establish Norman’s and Maureen’s intention in creating the…