Legal Opinion
James L. Osborn, Jr. v. E.F. Hutton & Company, Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 5, 1988No. 87-2392PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge. .
James L. Osborn, Jr. appeals from two orders of the district court granting the appellees’ motions for summary judgment and dismissing each of Osborn’s claims alleging that the appellees churned his commodities and fraudulently, negligently, or in breach of fiduciary duty gave him improper trading advice. We affirm.
Osborn is a successful entrepreneur, having founded in 1970 Home Office Reference Láboratory (Home Office), a company which tests human specimens for life insurance purposes. After the success of Home Office, Osborn began investing in various other…
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