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DAVIS & COX v. SUMMA CORP.

Nos. 82-5559 to 82-5562.

751 F.2d 1507 (1985)

DAVIS & COX, a partnership, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. SUMMA CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee. Chester C. DAVIS, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. SUMMA CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee. SUMMA CORPORATION, Defendant-Counterclaimant/Appellant, v. DAVIS & COX, a partnership, Chester C. Davis, Maxwell E. Cox, Howard M. Jaffe and Martin Cook, Plaintiffs-Counterdefendants/Appellees. SUMMA CORPORATION, Hughes Aircraft Corporation, Defendants-Counterclaimants/Appellants, v. Chester C. DAVIS, Davis & Cox, Maxwell E. Cox, Howard M. Jaffe and D. Martin Cook, Counterdefendants/Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Resubmitted November 1, 1984.

January 18, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Gaylord Smith, Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee/cross-appellant.

Robert L. Winslow, Irell & Manella, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellant/cross-appellee.

Before CHOY and SKOPIL, Circuit Judges, and PRICE, District Judge.

CHOY, Circuit Judge:

In January 1979, Summa Corporation ("Summa"), a Delaware corporation wholly-owned by Howard R. Hughes, and the Hughes Estate ("the Estate") filed a complaint in Nevada state court against the "palace guard" of nurse-aides, physicians, attorneys and executives who surrounded Hughes during his lifetime and insulated him from contact with the outside world. The complaint alleged that the "palace guard"...

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