Cynthia Anne Brinker and Brenda Lee Brinker v. Wobaco Trust Limited

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 Brinkers second marriage would be excluded as beneficiaries of the trusts, and to impose a constructive trust on certain assets removed from Maureen Brinkers 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 Normans and Maureens intention in creating the trusts, or to show that in the drafting of the trust indentures a mistake had been made which would warrant reformation of the instruments to reflect the true intention.