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A federal appeals court has rejected another effort by a deliveryman to claim a piece of Howard Hughes’ fortune.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled Friday that a jury in 1978 already determined that a hand-scrawled will offered by Melvin Dummar as evidence wasn’t authentic.
Dummar, of Brigham City, Utah, renewed his claim in 2006 after a pilot came forward to say he dropped Hughes off at a Nevada brothel in December 1967, near where Dummar says he discovered Hughes facedown and bloodied in the desert. Dummar claims Hughes left him $156 million in his will as a reward. His story was dramatized in 1980’s Academy Award-winning “Melvin and Howard.” The Associated Press
