KNAUFF v. UTAH CONSTRUCTION & MINING CO.

No. 9921.

408 F.2d 958 (1969)

Odessa H. KNAUFF, as Executrix of the Estate of Walter G. Knauff, Deceased, W. Duncan Pyle, Vern E. Lantow, Commercial Security Bank, as Administrator of the Estate of Maude Carruth, Deceased, New Park Mining Company, East Utah Mining Company, and Max J. Johnson, Plaintiff and Intervenors-Appellants, v. UTAH CONSTRUCTION & MINING CO., a corporation, Robert L. Cranmer, Allen D. Christensen, and Edmund W. Littlefield, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

March 25, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl L. Lathrop, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Glen C. Hanni, Salt Lake City, Utah (Lathrop, Lathrop & Uchner, Loomis, Lazear, Wilson & Pickett, Cheyenne, Wyo., Strong & Hanni, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Feder, Morris & Feder, Denver, Colo., on the brief), for appellants.

John B. Bates, San Francisco, Cal. (Wehrli & Williams, William J. Wehrli, Casper, Wyo., Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, and James F. Kirkham, San Francisco, Cal., on the brief), for appellees Utah Const. & Mining Co., Allen D. Christensen, and Edmund W. Littlefield.

F. Seaton Prince, Salt Lake City, Utah (Henderson, Godfrey & Kline, Paul B. Godfrey, Cheyenne, Wyo., Mulliner, Prince & Mangum, and Gerald R. Miller, Salt Lake City, Utah, on the brief), for appellee Robert L. Cranmer.

Before LEWIS, BREITENSTEIN and HICKEY, Circuit Judges.


BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

This class action brought by a minority stockholder seeks to void a merger of two corporations and to impress certain properties with a constructive trust. In the alternative it seeks affirmance of the merger and damages because of an unfair merger ratio. Jurisdiction is invoked under § 27 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. § 78aa, and under 28 U.S.C. § 1655 which relates to the imposition of liens. Pendent...

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