BENNETT v. BERG

No. 81-1418.

685 F.2d 1053 (1982)

Clarence E. BENNETT, et al., Appellants, v. Kenneth BERG, et al., Appellees. Dan R. SANDFORD, Jr., et al., Appellants, v. Kenneth BERG, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 11, 1982.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied in Part and Granted in Part September 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Plotkin, Robert P. Schuwerk, Plotkin & Jacobs, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., Jim Tom Reid, Shockley, Reid & Koger, Kansas City, Mo., for appellants.

James M. Beck, Steven M. Leigh, Johnson, Lucas, Bush, Snapp & Burgess, Kansas City, Mo., for John Knox Village.

Baker & Botts, James G. Ulmer, Randall A. Hopkins, Donna C. Kline, Robert E. Goodman, Jr., Houston, Tex., Swanson, Midgley, Gangwere, Clarke & Kitchin, James H. McLarney, Kansas City, Mo., for the Prudential Ins. Com. of America, appellee.

John H. Altergott, Jr., Suzanne K. Loseke, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, P. C., Kansas City, Mo., for appellee G. Dennis Sullivan.

James Borthwick, Shirley W. Keeler, Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi, Kansas City, Mo., for Snyder, Grant & Muehling.

Albert Thomson, Linde, Thomson, Fairchild, Langworthy, Kohn & Van Dyke, Kansas City, Mo., for appellees Kenneth Berg, Jeanne Berg, Christian Services Intern., Inc., Evangelical Christian Social Services, Inc., Lee Felsburg, Nat. Village Church Center, Lottie Jones, Irma Waddell, Elson Herndon, Floyd Sauer, Chris Coates, Glenn Smead, Maude Walker, Paul Edwards, Harvey Arbonies, and Mike Swingle.

Before HENLEY and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, and NICHOL, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied in Part and Granted in Part September 16, 1982.

HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal arises upon the district court's granting of defendants' motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). The case involves two consolidated complaints1 in which plaintiffs-appellants seek, inter alia, treble damages and equitable...

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