Lee Ratner and John Zuro, Individually and D/B/A the Grant Company v. Sioux Natural Gas Corporation and Sioux Pipeline Corporation

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for $18 million in favor of Grant Company against the defendants, Sioux Natural Gas Corporation, Sioux Pipeline Corporation, Elliott. H. Powers, and J.F. Freel. Shortly before this Court heard oral argument on the case, the individual appellants — Powers and Freel— reached a settlement with Grant, which the district court approved after a hearing. We remand for a determination whether the settlement has mooted the entire appeal.

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In November • 1974, Lee Ratner, John Zuro, and their partnership, the Grant Company, 1 entered into a…