Prudential Oil & Minerals Company, a Utah Corporation and Robert Crail and H. M. Scheurn v. Robert G. Hamlin

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

This action was initiated in the state court of Utah by Prudential Oil and Minerals Company to recover from Robert G. Hamlin the sum of $60,000 allegedly due under a contract between these parties for the sale and purchase of uranium mining claims. Hamlin counterclaimed against Prudential, joining the corporate officers Crail and Scheurn, and asserted that he had been fraudulently induced to purchase the uranium claims by the false representations of the individual defendants. He asserted that the claims as represented would have been worth $1,560*000 but were in fact…