KNAUFF v. UTAH CONSTRUCTION & MINING CO.

Civ. No. 4627.

277 F.Supp. 564 (1967)

Odessa H. KNAUFF, as Executrix of the Estate of Walter G. Knauff, deceased, W. Duncan Pyle and Vern E. Lantow, Plaintiffs, Commercial Security Bank, as Administrator of the Estate of Maude Carruth, deceased, New Park Mining Company, East Utah Mining Company and Max J. Johnson, Intervening Plaintiffs, v. UTAH CONSTRUCTION & MINING CO., a corporation, William Henry Harrison Cranmer, Robert L. Cranmer, Allen D. Christensen, Edmund W. Littlefield and Lincoln G. Kelly, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Wyoming.

October 2, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lathrop & Lathrop, Loomis, Lazear, Wilson & Pickett, Cheyenne, Wyo., Feder, Morris & Feder, Denver, Colo., Edgar J. Schoen, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff Odessa H. Knauff, as Executrix of Estate of Walter G. Knauff, deceased.

Lathrop & Lathrop, Cheyenne, Wyo., Feder, Morris & Feder, Denver, Colo., Edgar J. Schoen, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs W. Duncan Pyle and Vern E. Lantow.

Loomis, Lazear, Wilson & Pickett, Cheyenne, Wyo., Strong & Hanni, Salt Lake City, Utah, for intervening plaintiff Maude Carruth (before her death which occurred several months prior to trial) and Commercial Security Bank, as Administrator of Estate of Maude Carruth, deceased, and for intervening plaintiffs New Park Mining Co., East Utah Mining Co. and Max J. Johnson.

Wehrli & Williams, Casper, Wyo., Bruce T. Mitchell, San Francisco, Cal., Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Utah Const. & Mining Co.

Henderson & Godfrey, Cheyenne, Wyo., Mulliner, Prince & Mangum, Salt Lake City, Utah, Wehrli & Williams, Casper, Wyo., for defendants William Henry Harrison Cranmer and Robert L. Cranmer.

Henderson & Godfrey, Cheyenne, Wyo., Mulliner, Prince & Mangum, Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendant Edward K. Bachman, Executor of Estate of William Henry Harrison Cranmer, Deceased.

Wehrli & Williams, Casper, Wyo., Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants Allen D. Christensen and Edmund W. Littlefield.

Guy, Phelan, Williams, White & Mulvaney, Cheyenne, Wyo., Ray, Rawlins, Jones & Henderson, Salt Lake City, Utah, Wehrli & Williams, Casper, Wyo., for defendant Lincoln G. Kelly (who was dismissed by order of court before trial).

Wehrli & Williams, Casper, Wyo., Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant First Nat. Bank of Nevada at Reno (dismissed by order of court before trial).


KERR, District Judge.

FINDINGS OF FACT

1. This is an action for equitable relief voiding a merger and impressing certain properties in a constructive trust for the benefit of the plaintiff and intervenors and others in their alleged class. In the alternative, it is an action affirming the contract of purchase or sale (the merger agreement) and seeking damages for the plaintiff and intervenors. Jurisdiction is invoked under the Securities Exchange Act of...

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