AMERICAN EMP. INS. CO. v. KING RESOURCES CO.

Nos. 75-1884, 75-1886—75-1891, 75-1897 and 75-1898.

545 F.2d 1265 (1976)

AMERICAN EMPLOYERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. KING RESOURCES COMPANY et al., Defendants. Harold BOTTGER et al., Plaintiffs, v. KING RESOURCES COMPANY et al., Defendants. The DIETRICH CORPORATION et al., Plaintiffs, v. KING RESOURCES COMPANY et al., Defendants. GROSS et al., Plaintiffs, v. BLYTH & CO., INC., et al., Defendants. MORRELL et al., Plaintiffs, v. John M. KING et al., Defendants. In the Matter of KING RESOURCES COMPANY. John M. KING, Appellant, v. Charles A. BAER, Trustee, Appellee. In the Matter of John McCandish KING. John M. KING, Appellant, v. Virgil Peter CLINE, Trustee, Appellee. In the Matter of The COLORADO CORPORATION. John M. KING, Appellant, v. William C. LAM, Trustee, Appellee. In the Matter of IMPERIAL-AMERICAN RESOURCES, FUND, INC. John M. KING, Appellant, v. Theodore H. FRISON, Trustee, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided November 5, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. King, pro se.

Robert J. Kapelke, Denver, Colo., for Charles A. Baer, Trustee, King Resources Co., appellee.

John A. Criswell, Englewood, Colo., for all appellees other than Baer.

William A. Cotter, Jr., John F. Shafroth, Denver, Colo., Mary Morrissey Sullivan, Boston, Mass. (Parker, Coulter, Daley & White, Boston, Mass., and Shafroth & Toll, Denver, Colo., of counsel), on brief for American Employers' Ins. Co., appellee.

Gerald L. Bader and Robert J. Dyer of Bader & Dufty, Denver, Colo., and Eugene W. Landy of Landy & Spector, Eatontown, N. J., on brief for Harold A. Bottger, et al., appellees.

Winston J. Churchill, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., George W. Hopper, Alan W. Peryam, Denver, Colo., John C. S. Kepner, Philadelphia, Pa. (Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, Philadelphia, Pa., and Hopper & Kanouff, Denver, Colo., of counsel), on brief for The Dietrich Corp., et al., appellees.

John S. Pfeiffer and Robert J. Kapelke, Denver, Colo., on brief for Charles A. Baer, Trustee, King Resources Co., appellee.

Donald M. Haskell, Robert F. Klimek, Chicago, Ill., Daniel J. Pope, Evanston, Ill. (Haskell & Perrin, Chicago, Ill., of counsel), on brief for Timothy G. Lowry, appellee.

Before SETH, McWILLIAMS and BARRETT, Circuit Judges.


BARRETT, Circuit Judge.

John M. King (King), appearing pro se, appeals the District Court's en banc denial of his motion to consolidate nine (9) actions. King's motion was to consolidate "for purposes of settlement only."

The nine actions which King sought to be consolidated included: American Employers' Insurance Company v. King Resources Company, an action by an insurance company for the rescission of an officers and directors liability insurance...

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