Case Name: Grady H. VAUGHN, III et al., Petitioners, v. E. H. GUNTER et al., Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1970-12-31
Citations: 461 S.W.2d 599
Docket Number: No. B-2393
Parties: Grady H. VAUGHN, III et al., Petitioners, v. E. H. GUNTER et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 461
Pages: 599–600

Head Matter:
Grady H. VAUGHN, III et al., Petitioners, v. E. H. GUNTER et al., Respondents.
No. B-2393.
Supreme Court of Texas.
Dec. 31, 1970.
Shank, Irwin, Conant & Williamson, A. B. Conant, Jr., and Ralph B. Shank, Leslie Shults, Dallas, for petitioners.
Thompson, Knight, Simmons & Bullion, J. P. Jones, Jackson, Walker, Winstead, Cantwell & Miller, Orrin Miller, Dallas, Z. T. Fortescue, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Bur-ford, Ryburn & Ford, Roy Cole, Dallas, for respondents.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The court of civil appeals has said (458 S.W.2d 523) that the question in the appeal is "whether Gary William Vaughn, the adopted child of G. H. Vaughn, Jr., is entitled to share in the remainder-class gift to 'children' within the meaning of that term as used in the trust instruments." We approve the holding of the court of civil appeals that under the 1951 amendment of Section 9 of Article 46a, Vernon's Ann.Tex. Civ.St., in' the absence of words indicating a contrary intention the unqualified words "children" and "child" include an adopted child. The application for writ of error was refused, no reversible error; the motion for rehearing is overruled.