BENOAY v. DECKER

Civ. A. No. 74-72861.

517 F.Supp. 490 (1981)

LeRoy W. BENOAY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Donald C. DECKER, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

June 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bolden & Blake, P. C. by Benjamin F. Blake, Patmon, Young & Kirk, P. C. by Frederick A. Patmon, Ulysses W. Boykin, III, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Clark, Klein & Beaumont by Laurence M. Scoville, Jr., David H. Paruch, Detroit, Mich., for defendants Coopers & Lybrand, Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, Edward Premo and Wilbur Pfromm.

Weisman, Trogan & Young, P. C. by Martin C. Weisman, Troy, Mich., for defendants Bonisteel & Bailey, Bonisteel, Bailey & Sikorski, Joseph Ehlen, Robert Barnes, and Dominic Ferranti.

Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn by Stephen Wasinger, Detroit, Mich., for defendants Fred Romanoff, Stanford C. Stoddard, George A. Pierson, and Michigan National Bank.

Bodman, Longley & Dahling by George G. Kemsley, Detroit, Mich., for defendants Manufacturers National Bank, Donald E. Black and John A. Mays.

Collins, Einhorn & Farrell, P. C. by Morton H. Collins, Southfield, Mich., for defendants Peter Bentley, and Maguire, Cole, Bentley & Babson.

Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg by Gregory M. Kopacz, Detroit, Mich., for defendants John K. Cannon, Lloyd A. Semple, Theodore H. Oldham, Alan R. Dominick, and Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg.

Golden & Lakind by Robert H. Golden, Southfield, Mich., in pro. per. and for defendant POM Financial Corp.

Weisman, Trogan & Young, P. C. by Martin C. Weisman, Troy, Mich., for defendant Roy McCrae.

Kaufman & Friedman by P. David Palmiere, Southfield, Mich., for defendant Donald C. Decker.

Alan R. Miller, P. C. by Alan R. Miller, Birmingham, Mich., for defendants Kenneth E. Tureaud and RSA Corp.

Hill, Lewis, Adams, Goodrich & Tait by Timothy D. Wittlinger, Detroit, Mich., for defendants Richard C. Sanders, Walter L. Maguire, The Maguire Foundation.


OPINION

GILMORE, District Judge.

Several newly-added defendants to this case have brought motions to dismiss pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 9(b) and 12(b)(6). The issue is whether plaintiffs have pleaded fraud with sufficient particularity to meet the requirements of FRCP 9(b).

This suit arose out of alleged fraud in the sale and management of oil and gas interests bought by plaintiffs in 1971. The original

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