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NAIL v. THOMPSON

No. 2-90-145-CV.

806 S.W.2d 599 (1991)

Larry Henry NAIL, Fay Ann Wynne and Howell Smith Wynne, Appellants, v. George THOMPSON, IV and James L. Ervin, Trustees, Jerome Burley, Sharon Stimson Gilbert, Dennis Stimson, Jack Kirksmith, Jasper Kirksmith, Sam Nail Webb, A.L. Nail, Matilda Peeler, William Purington Bomar, Jr., Morris Jerome Stimson, James Harlan Burley, William Reilly Nail, Jr., Mark DeWitt Reynolds, William Reynolds, Peggy Reynolds Simpson, Elizabeth Annette Reynolds, Ann Reynolds, Sheryl Fillingim Croker, Jesanne Nail Rail, Teresa Nail, Ronald James Nail, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Overruled May 28, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Malouf Lynch Jackson Kessler & Collins, and Joseph O. Collins, Jr., Scott D. Weber and Donald J. Malouf, Dallas, for appellants Fay Ann Wynne and Howell Smith Wynne.

Ball, Landrith & Kulesz, P.C. and David L. Lewallen, Arlington, for appellant Larry Henry Nail.

Shannon, Gracey, Ratliff & Miller, and Anne Gardner, William D. Ratliff, Jr., and B. Frank Cain, Fort Worth, for appellees George Thompson, IV and James L. Ervin, Trustees.

Sharp, Bates, McGee & Spurlock and William T. McGee, Haynes and Boone, and David E. Keltner, Fort Worth, for appellees Jerome Burley, Sharon Stimson Gilbert, Dennis Stimson, Jack Kirksmith, Jasper Kirksmith, Sam Nail Webb, A.L. Nail and Matilda Nail Peeler.

Before FARRIS, LATTIMORE and MEYERS, JJ.

OPINION

FARRIS, Justice.

Larry Henry Nail, Fay Ann Wynne, and Howell Smith Wynne appeal a summary judgment which excluded them from participating in the distribution of the M.M. Cook testamentary trust because they were adopted family members. The Wynnes raise but one point of error; Nail raises several. All points rest on one main issue: whether M.M. Cook's adopted family members are entitled to participate in the distribution of the testamentary trust...

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