A multigenerational family feud will continue, even though a 100-year-old attorney recently won a battle over an estate dispute involving oil and gas rights that he took as his attorney fee in a 50-year-old case.

The centenarian father and lawyer is John E. Fitzgibbon Sr. He and other appellants scored their victory when San Antonio’s Fourth Court of Appeals agreed with their argument that a settlement agreement—the target of daughter Janice Hughes’ breach-of-contract claim—was not valid because several relatives did not sign off.

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