HERPICH v. WALLACE

No. 27729.

430 F.2d 792 (1970)

Edwin J. HERPICH, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Robert H. WALLACE, Jack E. Love, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 14, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Vernon Patrick, Jr., F. Don Siegal, Birmingham, Ala., Robert Kleinpeter, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

R. Gordon Kean, Jr., Frank J. Polozola, Baton Rouge, La., John P. Frank, Phoenex, Ariz., A. G. Seale, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before AINSWORTH, DYER and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.


AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

In this case we must determine whether minority shareholders of a Louisiana corporation have stated a claim for relief under various sections of the federal securities laws which entitles them to challenge in federal court, absent diversity, the way in which control of their corporation was sold to an Arizona-based complex of insurance companies. The District Court dismissed their complaint on the pleadings, thus relegating them to the state...

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