MIDCONTINENT BROADCASTING v. DRESSER INDUSTRIES

No. 81-1513.

669 F.2d 564 (1982)

MIDCONTINENT BROADCASTING COMPANY, a corporation, and South Dakota Broadcasting Company, formerly Forum Communications Company, a corporation, Appellants, v. DRESSER INDUSTRIES, INC., a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 4, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellsworth E. Evans (argued), Charles D. Gullickson, Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, Sioux Falls, S. D., for appellants.

Allan D. Vestal, Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Harold C. Doyle, May, Johnson, Doyle & Becker, P. C., Sioux Falls, S. D., G. Alan Cunningham (argued), Robert L. Collins, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant-appellee Dresser Industries, Inc.

Before HEANEY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and DAVIES, Senior District Judge.


RONALD N. DAVIES, Senior District Judge.

In this appeal by the plaintiffs we are asked to review and reverse the district court's1 grant of defendant's motions for summary judgment in cases consolidated for purposes of hearing the motions.

In 1965 the plaintiffs, Midcontinent Broadcasting Company (Midcontinent) and Forum Communications Company (Forum)2, both South Dakota broadcasting stations, formed...

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