OHIO OIL CO. v. SHARP

No. 2635.

135 F.2d 303 (1943)

OHIO OIL CO. v. SHARP.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

April 5, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Villard Martin, of Tulsa, Okl. (H. G. Ross and Robert J. Stanton, both of Tulsa, Okl., on the brief), for appellant.

J. B. Dudley, of Oklahoma City, Okl. (Sumter Cousin, of Shreveport, La., and I. C. Saunders, of Shawnee, Okl., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, BRATTON, and MURRAH, Circuit Judges.


MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

This is an equitable action by the appellant, the Ohio Oil Company, to impress a constructive trust upon certain oil and gas leases, alleged to have been acquired by C. W. Sharp, appellee, by the wrongful use of confidential information belonging to the Ohio. The trial court dismissed the action, holding in effect that the facts as pleaded in the complaint affirmatively show that the information wrongfully obtained and used by Sharp was also...

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