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TRANSCONTINENTAL OIL CO., INC. OF NEVADA v. FREE

No. 4716.

391 P.2d 317 (1964)

TRANSCONTINENTAL OIL CO., INC. OF NEVADA, now known as Transcontinental Power Company, George Ditson Jones, George H. Howell, Jr., Winona L. Jackson, Owen E. Jackson and Salton Sea Power Company, a Nevada corporation, Appellants, v. William FREE and Western Geothermal, Inc., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

April 15, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory & Gregory, Las Vegas, for appellants.

Vargas, Dillon, Bartlett & Dixon, and Robert W. Marshall, Reno, for respondent Western Geothermal, Inc.

Bible, McDonald & Carano, Reno, for respondent William Free.

THOMPSON, Justice.

The main question presented on this appeal is whether the district court had jurisdiction to enter an order setting the time for hearing a petition for the appointment of a temporary receiver, when it had dismissed the plaintiffs' complaint with leave to amend and the amendment had not yet been made. The question arose out of the following circumstances.

Free (plaintiff), as a stockholder in Transcontinental Oil Co., Inc. (defendant), brought...

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