Legal Opinion
Bergeson v. Life Insurance Corp. of America
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 16, 1959No. Nos. 5914, 5977, 6000PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
These three interrelated appeals arise from a stockholder’s derivative suit in which federal jurisdiction is based upon diversity of citizenship. Bergeson, the plaintiff below, sued as a stockholder in, and for the benefit of, Life Insurance Corporation of America.1
The complaint sets out two claims. The first is directed against Bullard, Rich, Wright, Wirthlin and Pugsley,2 as officers and directors of the company and as members of a partnership known as Licoa Agency Company, and against Birrell, Zimmerman and Thomas, 3 as part*230nership members of an accounting firm.…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Koster v. (American) Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. BigelowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. LewisohnSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- The Standard Oil Company, a Corporation and Sohio Petroleum Company, a Corporation v. Standard Oil Company, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1958
- Davis v. Las Ovas Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1913
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3Cited by3 opinions
- American Woodmen's Life Ins. Co. v. Supreme CampColorado Court of Appeals · 1976
- L. Bryan Bergeson v. Life Insurance Corporation of America, a Corporation, Cleo H. Bullard, Lewis R. Rich, Adrian S. Wright, W. Meeks Wirthlin, Harry D. Pugsley, Lawrence H. Birrell, Herbert J. Zimmerman, and J. Robert Thomas, Cleo H. Bullard, Adrian S. Wright and W. Meeks Wirthlin v. L. Bryan Bergeson and Life Insurance Corporation of America, a Corporation, Cleo H. Bullard, Adrian S. Wright, W. Meeks Wirthlin and Lewis R. Rich v. L. Bryan Bergeson and Life Insurance Corporation of America, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1959
- Production House Ltd. Partnership v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1992