KOSTER v. WARREN

No. 16800.

297 F.2d 418 (1961)

Jeanne KOSTER, Appellant, v. Lingan A. WARREN, Milton L. Selby, Chester N. Sanders, Dwight M. Cochran, et al., and Safeway Stores, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

October 19, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garry, Dreyfus, McTernan & Keller, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Sidney L. Garwin, New York City, William T. Selby, Ventura, Cal., of counsel, for appellee Milton L. Selby.

W. Burleigh Pattee, Bruce M. Casey, Jr., and Chickering & Gregory, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee Chester N. Sanders.

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

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Morris M. Doyle, Burnham Enersen and Bryant K. Zimmerman, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee Dwight M. Cochran.

Turner H. McBaine and Donald G. McNeil, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee Safeway Stores, Inc., and Robert A. Magowan.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., of counsel, for appellees.

Before CHAMBERS, MERRILL and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges.


MERRILL, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, as stockholder in Safeway Stores, Incorporated, has brought this stockholder's derivative action on behalf of the corporation with federal jurisdiction resting on diversity of citizenship. She has taken this appeal from a judgment of dismissal for failure to post security pursuant to the provisions of § 834 of California's Corporations Code.

That section provides that the defendant in a stockholder's derivative action...

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