MOSES v. MICHAEL

No. 18627-18629.

292 F.2d 614 (1961)

W. S. MOSES and David A. New, Appellants, v. Fred MICHAEL, Appellee. W. S. MOSES and David A. New, Appellants, v. Robert BAIRD et al., Appellees. W. S. MOSES and David A. New, Appellants, v. W. D. GARDNER et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 6, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl T. Thomas, W. Calvin Wells, Jr., Thomas H. Watkins, Elizabeth Grayson, Jackson, Miss., Watkins & Eager, Wells, Thomas & Wells, Jackson, Miss., Graham H. Hicks, Natchez, Miss., Fred Anderson, Gloster, Miss., of counsel, for appellants.

W. C. Keady, Fred C. DeLong, Jr., Greenville, Miss., Bernard W. N. Chill, Jackson, Miss., Walter P. North, Atty., S. E. C., Washington, D. C., Farish, Keady & Campbell, Greenville, Miss., of counsel, for appellees.

Ellwood L. Englander, Sp. Counsel, Theodore H. Focht, Atty., Washington, D. C., amicus curiae.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, RIVES, Circuit Judge, and DE VANE, District Judge.


DE VANE, District Judge.

These appeals involve twenty-three individual suits filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. The several suits are to recover the purchase price of undivided working interests in certain oil and gas leases, situated in Louisiana, which interests were allegedly sold in violation of the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U.S.C.A. § 77a, et seq., 48 Stat. 74.

After discovery proceedings were had...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases