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HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE v. GAVIN

No. 12416.

621 P.2d 489 (1980)

HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE, Appellant, v. June GAVIN, Special Administratrix of the Estate of Annette Gano Lummis, Deceased, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 29, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fahrenkopf, Mortimer, Sourwine, Mousel & Sloane, Reno, Sherwin J. Markman and Joseph M. Hassett, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Echeverria & Osborne, Chartered, Reno, Morse-Foley, Las Vegas, Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, Houston, Tex., for respondent.

OPINION

BATJER, Justice:

Howard R. Hughes, Jr., died on April 5, 1976. To date, no will executed by Hughes has been found. The appellant, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), seeks to establish the terms of a lost will leaving most of the Hughes estate to HHMI.

HHMI filed its petition to probate a lost or destroyed will of Howard Hughes on January 12, 1977. Respondent, the estate of one of Hughes' next...

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