INTERFIRST BANK-HOUSTON v. QUINTANA PETROLEUM

No. 01-84-0626-CV.

699 S.W.2d 864 (1985)

INTERFIRST BANK-HOUSTON, N.A., Guardian of the Estate of Ugo DiPortanova, N.C.M., et al., Appellants, v. QUINTANA PETROLEUM CORPORATION, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Rehearing Denied October 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Wilk, Joseph S. Cohen, Hirsch & Westheimer, P.C., Houston, for Republic Bank Houston, Nat. Ass'n, Trustee.

W. Bryant Russell, James Wyckoff, James David Pittman, Sandra L. Perkins, Wyckoff, Russell, Frazier & Centiempo, Houston, for Interfirst Bank Houston, N.A., Guardian of the Estate of Ugo di Portanova, N.C.M.

Paul E. Harris, Childs, Fortenbach, Beck & Guyton, Berry D. Bowen, Andrews & Kurth, Houston, for Tex. American Bank-Houston.

Joe M. Kirkham, Kirkham & Roberts, Houston, Stephen M. Sacks, Peter T. Grossi, Jr., David S. Steuer, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., for Enrico di Portanova & Gregory Hovas, Trustee.

William E. Matthews, Harvey G. Brown, Jr., Sewell & Riggs, Houston, for Gregory Hovas, Co-Trustee of the Estate & La. Trusts for the benefit of Ugo DiPortanova.

J. Eugene Clements, James L. Cornell, Porter & Clements, Houston, for John Neale & H.R. "Babe" Schwartz.

Joseph D. Jamail, Jamail & Kolius, Houston (Stanley M. Johanson, Austin, of counsel), Ewing Werlein, Jr., John L. Carter, D. Gibson Walton, C. Boone Schwartzel, Allan Van Fleet, J. Thomas Scott, Elaine Drodge Koch, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, for Quintana Petroleum Co.; Isaac Arnold, Jr. & Roy H. Cullen, Individually & as Independent Executors of the Estate of Agnes Cullen Arnold, Deceased; Margaret Cullen Marshall & Wilhelmina Cullen Robertson, Individually & as two of those who served as Co-Executrices of the Estate of H.R. Cullen & Lillie C. Cullen, Deceased, Harry H. Cullen, Douglas B. Marshall, Sr. and Corbin J. Robertson, Sr.

Before WARREN and JACK SMITH, JJ., and TOM F. COLEMAN, Retired Justice.


OPINION

TOM F. COLEMAN, Retired Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment. Enrico diPortanova, InterFirst Bank-Houston, N.A., guardian of the estate of Ugo diPortanova, N.C.M., and the trustees of various testamentary trusts set up by the wills of H.R. Cullen and Lillie C. Cullen, his wife, have sued to set aside the transfer of certain shares of stock from the testators' estates to certain family members other than the diPortanovas, and for damages...

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