E. Donald Steinbrugge v. John S. Haddock and Alma J. Haddock, as of the Estate of Marshall Haddock, Jr., Deceased

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Steinbrugge brought this diversity suit to rescind six purchases of Oklahoma oil and gas interests from ap-pellees, the Haddocks, on the grounds that the Haddocks’ agent in the transactions, Kunsman, had breached fiducial duties owed by him to Steinbrugge. More, particularly, appellant contends that in each of the six transactions, Kunsman was acting as his agent or at least in some fiducial capacity, giving rise to strict duties to disclose to him all material facts, e. g., that Kunsman was also the Haddocks’ agent, and the amount of Kunsman’s commissions on…