A. Dean Allison and Victor F. Reiserer v. Home-Stake Production Company, a Corporation, and C. W. Staats

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

After trial without a jury the district court denied relief to the appellants-plaintiffs on their claims that the appel-lees-defendants had breached, and conspired to breach, certain contract and fiduciary obligations. The trial court found that the duty of the defendants to perform had terminated. The controlling question is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain such finding.

Plaintiff Allison was in the oil business and plaintiff Reiserer was an oil geologist. Defendant Home-Stake Production Company was engaged in water-flood projects for the secondary…