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Howard Hughes Medical Institute v. George F. Neff by Houston the Fourteenth Court of Appeals Book Summary

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 of a lost will allegedly dated and executed on May 30, 1925. The State of Texas and the court-appointed attorney ad litem for unknown heirs, appellees herein and contestants in the court below, moved for a hearing in limine to require that HHMI prove its standing as a party interested in the Hughes estate. Contestant Neff, the executor of an aunt of Hughes, filed a motion for summary judgment. Contestants McIntyre and Bond, a cousin of Hughes and the executor of the estate of a cousin of Hughes, respectively, also filed a joint motion for summary judgment. Since the questions of the existence and validity of any will and HHMIs position to benefit therefrom relate to the standing issue, the parties agreed to conduct the evidentiary hearing on standing and the hearing on the motions for summary judgment together. This hearing was conducted on December 2, 1980. On February 27, 1981, the trial court signed a judgment ordering that contestants are entitled to judgment as a matter of law, and denying and dismissing HHMIs application for probate. The question for this Court is whether the record on appeal will sustain the judgment dismissing the application for probate on the basis of any of the issues raised below by the motions for summary judgment or by the in limine evidentiary hearing on the standing question. We find that the record will sustain the judgment and accordingly affirm.

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