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HOWARD HUGHES MED. INST. v. LUMMIS

No. A2176.

596 S.W.2d 171 (1980)

HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE, Appellant, v. Annette Gano LUMMIS, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

Rehearing Denied February 27, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall W. Wilson, Stephen D. Susman, Mandell & Wright, Houston, for appellant.

Thomas L. Schubert, Douglas J. Dillion, Berry D. Bowen, Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, Houston, for appellee Annette Gano Lummis.

Mark White, Atty. Gen., Bert W. Pluymen, W. David Deaderik, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, George J. Parnham, Houston, for appellee State of Tex.

J. Clifford Gunter, III, Bracewell & Patterson, Houston, for appellee Barbara Cameron, Arness Roberts and Elspeth DePould.

O. Theodore Dinkins, Jr., Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Houston, for appellee ad litem for unknown heirs of Howard R. Hughes, Jr.

J. Thomas Eubank, Jr., Baker & Botts, Houston, for appellee Rice University.

Robert H. Roch, Fisher, Roch & Gallagher, Houston, for appellee Rush Hughes and Avis Hughes McIntyre.

C. Lee Caldwell, Houston, for appellee Church of Latter Day Saints.

C. M. Hank Hudspeth, DeLange, Hudspeth, Pitman & Katz, Houston, for appellee Annette Gano Graff.

Richard D. Grisanti, Buffalo, N.Y., for appellee Victor L. Ganoe, et al.

Wallace T. Shanks, Williams & Shanks, Houston, for appellees Robert C. Hughes, et al.

C. Alex Meacham, Smyrna, Tenn., for appellees Elizabeth Hughes McLuglad, et al.

Before J. CURTISS BROWN, C. J., and MILLER and JUNELL, JJ.

J. CURTISS BROWN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI or Appellant) from the judgment of the probate court of Harris County granting summary judgment in favor of Annette Gano Lummis (Lummis or Appellee) on her declaratory judgment claim that the alleged will claimed by HHMI is not the valid last will and testament of Howard Hughes.

Howard Robard Hughes, Jr., died on April 5, 1976. On April 14, 1976 appellee

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