In re the JOHN G. AND MARIE STELLA KENEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, Relator.
In re Frost National Bank, Former Executor of the Estate of Elena Suess Kenedy, Deceased; Frost National Bank and Pablo Suess, Trustees of the John G. Kenedy, Jr. Charitable Trust; and the Missionary Oblate Fathers of Texas, Relators.
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Argued September 29, 2005.
Decided April 16, 2010.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mike A. Hatchell, Charles R. Watson Jr., Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP, Ray Chester, Thomas O. Barton, Austin, Jorge C. Rangel, The Rangel Law Firm, P.C., Jon D. Brooks, Richard L. Leshin, Welder, Leshin & Mahaffey, L.L.P., Bruce Sams Hawn, Welder Leshin Lorenz Mcniff Buchanan Hawn LLP, Richard J. Hatch, The Hatch Law Firm, Corpus Christi, for The John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation.
John W. Vinson, Bruce V. Griffiths, Asst. Attys. Gen., Susan K. Staricka, Office of the Atty. Gen., Austin, for The State of Texas.
Shannon H. Ratliff, Ratliff Law Firm, P.L.L.C., John Sjoberg, Jackson, Sjoberg, McCarthy & Wilson, LLP, Austin, for Exxonmobil Corporation/Exxonmobil Oil Corporation.
J.G. "Buster" Adami Jr., Adami, Paisley & Appell, P.C., Alice, J.A. (Tony) Canales, Tara Leigh Adami, Canales & Simonson, P.C., Corpus Christi, Stephen Jody Helman, Jeffrey T. Knebel, Osborne & Helman, L.L.P., Austin, Thomas H. Crofts Jr., Jacqueline M. Stroh, Crofts & Callaway, P.C., David Roy Nelson, Daniel McNeel Lane Jr., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., San Antonio, for Relator.
Joseph Bonner Dorsey, Sam A. Westergren, Corpus Christi, Mark Schwartz, Michael C. McCrea, Dubois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, LLP, Michele Anne Mobley, Dubois, Bryant & Campbell, LLP, Elana S. Einhorn, Austin, Deborah G. Hankinson, Hankinson Levinger LLP, Marcos G. Ronquillo, Godwin Ronquillo PC, Dallas, Richard P. Hogan Jr., Jennifer Bruch Hogan, Hogan & Hogan, L.L.P., Houston, for Real Party in Interest.
Supreme Court of Texas.
Justice GREEN delivered the opinion of the Court.
In these original proceedings, we consider whether the probate court abused its discretion by entering orders allowing the body of John G. Kenedy, Jr., to be exhumed for DNA testing to establish whether Ann M. Fernandez is Kenedy's non-marital child. We hold that it did, and we conditionally grant the writ of mandamus.
The relevant facts are set out in detail in Frost National Bank v. Fernandez,
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