Rosemont Enterprises, Inc. v. Lummis

MILLER, Justice.

The threshold questions in this action to enforce the terms of a promissory note are whether the probate court of Harris County had in personam jurisdiction of the debtor, a Nevada corporation with offices in New York and authority to do business in California as well, and if so, did it have subject matter jurisdiction? We hold that the court had both, that it decided other questions involved in the judgment correctly, and thus we affirm.

On July 2,1965, Howard Hughes granted to Rosemont Enterprises, Inc. the exclusive right to publish his biography or otherwise to exploit his…