Los Angeles Airways, Inc. v. Lummis

COULSON, Justice.

Los Angeles Airways, Inc. (LAA) appeals from a summary judgment granted in favor of William R. Lummis, Temporary Co-Administrator of the Estate of Howard R. Hughes, Jr., Deceased (Lummis). Suit was filed by LAA on February 4, 1977, after its creditor’s claim had been rejected. The suit alleged promissory estoppel, breach of an oral contract with partial performance and fraud and deceit in connection with an alleged agreement made sometime between August 15, 1968 and the fall of 1970 by Hughes, through his associates, to purchase Los Angeles Airways, Inc.

LAA’s claims, or…