Shields v. Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children

OPINION

AUSTIN McCLOUD, Senior Justice (Retired).

This is a will construction case. The trial court granted a motion for summary judgment filed by Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children d/b/a Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (Scottish Rite) and denied a motion for summary judgment filed by Charles 0. Shields, Independent Executor of the Estate of Fletcher G. Lippitt, Jr. (Shields).1 Shields appeals. We affirm.

The controversy involves the will of Fletcher G. Lippitt, Jr. The will was signed by Lippitt on June 6,1995. Lippitt died on March 27,1996.

Lippitt’s will provides in…