(August 14, 2017, 11:09 AM EDT) -- BEAUMONT, Texas — A Texas appeals panel held Aug. 3 that an attorney who allegedly defrauded an executor of an estate in his representation of a competing executor and depleted the estate’s assets was immune from liability to the executor, a non-client, because the summary judgment evidence conclusively established that the conduct complained of was within the scope of the attorney’s representation of his client in litigation of a contested probate proceeding (Ronald Rogers, individually and as Executor to the Estate of Louis Rogers v. Ted L. Walker, No. 09-15-00489-cv, Texas App., 9th Dist., 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 7303)....