Drake v. Rueckhaus

CARMODY, Justice.

Appellant, plaintiff below, seeks to reverse the trial court’s dismissal of his complaint, which sought damages for an alleged breach of a claimed trust relationship.

The actual questions for decision are: (1) Whether appellees occupied a position of trust, and, if so, whether the same was breached; (2) was appellant entitled to a jury trial; and (3) should the trial court have ordered the corporate appellee to exchange certain stock certificates.

The controversy arose out of the uranium speculation which assumed astounding proportions during the early 1950’s in New Mexico and…