WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY v. BIRDWELL

No. B2695.

624 S.W.2d 661 (1981)

WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY and Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation, Appellants, v. Garnett I. BIRDWELL, Administrator with Will Annexed of the Estate of James Cecil Brown, Deceased, Margaret Sandoz Brown, and Garnett I. Birdwell, Individually, Appellees.

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

October 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary C. Williams, Baker & Botts, Houston, for appellants.

James R. Doxey, Houston, for appellees.

Before PAUL PRESSLER, MURPHY and SAM ROBERTSON, JJ.


MURPHY, Justice.

Appellants appeal from a judgment which held that four bank accounts passed outside the will of James Cecil Brown, deceased, as joint tenancies with right of survivorship. In contention is whether the Probate Court erred in finding the accounts were joint tenancies with right of survivorship instead of finding the four bank accounts passed to Appellants through the residuary clause of the will. We affirm.

James Cecil Brown (Decedent) died...

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