Court Opinion

ID: 9639975
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:54:17.284765+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:24.335337
License: Public Domain

REYNOLDS, Chief Justice,
concurring.
A thread running throughout the fabric of the summary judgment evidence highlighted in the majority opinion is that the Boy Scouts of America, Inc. and its chartered councils, one of which was the Golden Spread Council, Inc., assumed the obligation of assisting chartered organizations “in securing and training qualified persons to serve as unit leaders and assistants,” and to identify and report those persons who are “unfit” to serve *45in those capacities. Accepting, as we must, the evidence and reasonable inferences in favor of Veronica Akins, and resolving any doubts in her favor, El Chico Corp. v. Poole, 732 S.W.2d 306, 315 (Tex.1987), we cannot find from the present record that BSA and GSC met and defeated Akins’ pleaded cause of action. BSA and GSC did not establish as a matter of law that they owed her no duty, or that they did not breach a duty, or, if they did, that the breach was not a proximate cause of her pleaded damages. Instead, the record merely depicts the classic situation where there is doubt as to the ultimate facts, which precludes summary judgment. In re Price’s Estate, 375 S.W.2d 900, 904 (Tex.1964).
Consequently, I concur in the judgment of reversal and remand.