Elick v. Woods

OPINION

COLLEY, Assigned Justice.

This is a summary judgment case involving the construction and application of the Texas Professional Corporation Act, Texas Revised Civil Statutes Annotated, Article 1528e, (Vernon 1980 and Vernon Supp. 1993), (hereinafter called “Article 1528e”).

I

INTRODUCTION

A. On November 18, 1988, Orange County attorney Marlin Neal Thompson, Jr., (hereinafter called “Thompson”) and his wife, Linda Frederick Thompson (hereinafter called “Linda”), were killed simultaneously in an airplane crash in Arkansas. Thompson’s typewritten will dated January 11, 1984, was admitted to…