Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-09-28 23:48:15.23279+00
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ACCEPTED
                                                                                         04-15-00087-CV
                                                               E-FILED       FOURTH COURT OF APPEALS
                                                               IN MATTERS PROBATE  SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
                                                                                    2/20/2015
                                                               Accepted: 2/20/2015 1:49:18 PM4:14:09 PM
                                                                                           KEITH HOTTLE
                                                               GERARD RICKHOFF
                                                                                                  CLERK
                                                               CLERK PROBATE COURTS
                                                               BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS
                                 CAUSE NO. 155,572             BY:___________________
                                                               ROXANNE STRAIT
ESTATE OF                                  §     IN THE PROBATE FILED
                                                                COURT IN
                                           §                4th COURT OF APPEALS
                                                             SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
SHIRLEY L. BENSON,                         §     NO. 2
                                                            02/20/2015 4:14:09 PM
                                           §
                                                                KEITH E. HOTTLE
           Deceased,                       §     BEXAR   COUNTY, TEXAS
                                                                     Clerk

                                CAUSE NO. 155,572-A

RENEE BENSON                               §     IN THE PROBATE COURT
                                           §
V.                                         §
                                           §     NO. 2
THOMAS MILTON BENSON, JR.                  §
As Trustee of the                          §
SHIRLEY L. BENSON                          §     BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS
TESTAMENTARY TRUST                         §

                NOTICE OF ACCELERATED INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL

           Respondent-Trustee THOMAS MILTON BENSON, JR. hereby gives notice

that he desires to appeal from the Amended Order Granting Injunction,

Suspending Trustee & Appointing Limited Temporary Co-Receivers with Restrictions

signed on February 18, 2015 in Cause No. 155,572; Estate of Shirley L. Benson,

Deceased and Cause No. 155,572-A, Renee Benson v. Thomas Milton Benson,

Jr., as Trustee of the Shirley L. Benson Testamentary Trust; in the Probate

Court Number 2 of Bexar County, Texas. This order modifies a prior order,

which is already on appeal in No. 04-15-00087-CV. See Tex. R. App. P. 27.3.

           This accelerated appeal will be to the San Antonio Court of Appeals.

See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 51.014(a)(1); Tex. R. App. P. 28.1(a).

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                                                                   Submitted on: 2/19/2015 4:45:21 PM
February 19, 2015         Respectfully submitted,

                          BECK│REDDEN LLP

                    By:   /s/ David J. Beck
                          David J. Beck
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                          Owen J. McGovern
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                          And

                          STONE PIGMAN WALTHER
                          WITTMANN L.L.C.
                          Phillip A Wittmann
                          (Admitted pro hoc vice)
                          546 Carondelet Street
                          New Orleans, Louisiana 70130-3558
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                          ATTORNEYS FOR TRUSTEE
                          THOMAS MILTON BENSON, JR.
                          As Trustee of the
                          SHIRLEY L. BENSON
                          TESTAMENTARY TRUST

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                           CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

       I hereby certify that a true and correct copy of foregoing document was served
in compliance with the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure on February 19, 2015, on the
following:

Bennett L. Stahl
CURL STAHL GEIS
A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
One Riverwalk Place
700 North St. Mary’s Street, Suite 1800
San Antonio, Texas 78205
blstahl@csg-law.com

Emily Harrison Liljenwal
SCHOENBAUM, CURPHY & SCANLAN, P.C.
112 E. Pecan, Suite 3000
San Antonio, Texas 78205
eliljenwall@scs-law.com

ATTORNEYS FOR PETITIONER
RENEE BENSON

                                          /s/ David J. Beck
                                          DAVID J. BECK

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