Legal Opinion
Kihneman v. Humble Oil & Refining Company
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided March 31, 1970No. Civ. A. 67-595PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUBIN, District Judge:
I. FINDINGS OF FACT
This suit, like a pride of others, was born when Humble Oil and Refining Company (Humble) sued Jack F. Ha-rang (Harang), a Louisiana geologist, and named a number of other persons co-defendants. William J. Kihneman (Kihneman), one of the defendants, here seeks to recover damages for invasion of privacy, malicious prosecution, and defamation, all arising out of the filing of that suit.
Humble’s complaint, filed in 1966, 1 claimed that Harang had entered into a secret arrangement with one of Humble’s then trusted geologists by which the two had improperly…
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