MILLER & LUX INCORPORATED v. NICKEL

No. 34043.

149 F.Supp. 463 (1957)

MILLER & LUX INCORPORATED, a Nevada corporation, Plaintiff, v. J. Leroy NICKEL, Jr., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

March 15, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Ray Robinson, Merced, Cal., T. Keister Greer, John P. Hodgson, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

McLaughlin & Casey, Los Angeles, Cal., Joseph Kimble, Thomas Elke, Kimble, Thomas, Snell, Jamison & Russell, Fresno, Cal., Lloyd Tweedt, Derby, Cook, Quinby & Tweedt, San Francisco, Cal., Hewlings Mumper, Meserve, Mumper & Hughes, Los Angeles, Cal., Harold Faulkner, Charles Wiseman, Melvin, Faulkner, Sheehan & Wiseman, Herbert W. Clark, Morrison, Hohfeld, Foerster, Schuman & Clark, San Francisco, Cal., Edwin P. Crail, Long Beach, Cal., William E. Woodroof, Mervyn Phelan, Los Angeles, Cal., Walter M. Gleason, San Francisco, Cal., R. K. Barrows, Harold C. Morton, James McRoberts, Hanna & Morton, Los Angeles, Cal., Walter L. Rowse, Bakersfield, Cal., James D. Adams, Burnham Enerson, McCutcheon, Thomas, Matthew, Griffiths & Greene, San Francisco, Cal., Clayton L. Orn, Calvin A. Brown, Findlay, Ohio, Lynn O. Hossom, Long Beach, Cal., Thomas A. J. Dockweiler, Henry F. Prince, Richard E. Davis, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, Cal., Stanley F. Davie, Oakland, Cal., Martin J. Weil, Sims Hamilton, J. G. Leovy, P. O. Broxon, Roger Williams, Los Angeles, Cal., Walter Hoffman, Edward Chandler, Athearn, Chandler & Hoffman, Richard H. Peterson, William E. Johns, Malcolm MacKillop, Edwin S. Pillsbury, David C. Dunlap, San Francisco, Cal., Robert B. Curtiss, Robert W. Walker, John J. Balluff, Rodney K. Potter, Sidney H. Wall, O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, Cal., Landels & Weigel, San Francisco, Cal., David P. Barcroft, Madera, Cal., Moses Lasky, Richard Haas, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal., Borton, Petrini, Conron & Brown, Bakersfield, Cal., Rosson & Pearson, Hanford, Cal., John B. Milliken, Los Angeles, Cal., Joseph A. Ball, Long Beach, Cal., Vincent J. McGovern, San Francisco, Cal., Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Balthis, Marcus Mattson, John M. Hall, Lawler, Felix & Hall, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants.


OLIVER J. CARTER, District Judge.

The plaintiff corporation has brought this action against fifty-five defendants, several of whom were formerly officers and agents of plaintiff. The complaint alleges that while these officers and agents were in control of the plaintiff, they conspired to deprive it of many of its large land holdings, pursuant to which the land was conveyed to themselves and others on their behalf; that much of the land has subsequently been conveyed...

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