Legal Opinion
Ohio Oil Co. v. Sharp
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 5, 1943No. 2635PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURRAH, Circuit Judge.
This is an equitable action by the appellant, the Ohio Oil Company, to impress a constructive trust upon certain oil and gas leases, alleged to have been acquired by C. W. Sharp, appellee, by the wrongful use of confidential information belonging to the Ohio. The trial court dismissed the action, holding in effect that the facts as pleaded in the complaint affirmatively show that the information wrongfully obtained and used by Sharp was also wrongfully obtained by the Ohio through a trespass upon the property of the parties from whom Sharp obtained the leases in…
2Cases cited47 opinions
- Beatty v. . Guggenheim Exploration Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1919
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- Loughran v. LoughranSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Guffey v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
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3Cited by43 opinions
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