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HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE v. NEFF

No. C2836.

640 S.W.2d 942 (1982)

HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE, Appellant, v. George F. NEFF, Administrator of the Estate of Annette Lummis, et al., Appellees.

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

August 5, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall W. Wilson, Susman & McGowan, Daryl Bristow, Baker & Botts, Houston, Paul Freese, Williams, Reickert, Kindell & Anderson, Los Angeles, Cal., J. Clifford Gunter, III, Bracewell & Patterson, Houston, George Dean, Destin, Fla., for appellant.

Wayne Fisher, Fisher, Roch & Gallagher, O. Theodore Dinkins, Jr., Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Houston, Rick Harrison, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Austin, Tex., for appellees.

Before MILLER, MORSE and JAMES, JJ.

JAMES, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the probate court of Harris County, denying and dismissing an application for probate of either of two alleged wills of Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. The application was filed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (hereafter HHMI or appellant) as the principal beneficiary of a lost will supposedly executed sometime between 1953 and 1963 or as the intended beneficiary or beneficiary under the cy pres doctrine...

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