KOSTER v. WARREN

No. 37682.

176 F.Supp. 459 (1959)

Jeanne KOSTER, Plaintiff, v. Lingan A. WARREN et al., Defendants.

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

September 11, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garry, Dreyfus, McTeenan & Keller, San Francisco, Cal., Sidney L. Garwin, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiff.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Turner H. McBaine, Donald G. McNeil, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants Safeway Stores, Incorporated, and Robert A. Magowan.

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Norris M. Doyle, Burnham Enersen, Bryant K. Zimmerman, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Dwight M. Cochran.

W. Burleigh Pattee, Robert W. Tallman, Chickering & Gregory, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Chester N. Sanders.

Ackerman, Johnston, Johnston & Mathews, George H. Johnston, Willard P. Norberg, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Lingan A. Warren.

William T. Selby, Ventura, Cal., for defendant Milton L. Selby.


HARRIS, District Judge.

In this derivative action under Rule 23(b) F.R.Civ.P., 28 U.S.C.A.,1 brought by a stockholder on behalf of Safeway Stores, Inc. against certain directors and former officers of the corporation, defendants have moved to require plaintiff to post security pursuant to Section 834 of the West's Ann. California Corporations Code, in the amount of $240,000. In order to prevail on their motions, defendants must prove that...

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