WATT, TIEDER, KILLIAN & HOFFAR v. USF&G

No. 91CA0523.

847 P.2d 170 (1992)

WATT, TIEDER, KILLIAN & HOFFAR, a Virginia partnership, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY CO., a Maryland Capital Stock Co., Defendant-Appellee, and Concerning Robert G. Watt, Thomas B. Newell, and John J. Joyce, Appellants.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. IV.

Rehearing Denied September 10, 1992.

Certiorari Denied February 22, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wolf & Slatkin, P.C., Albert B. Wolf, Denver, for plaintiff-appellant and appellants.

Dixon and Snow, P.C., Steven Janiszewski, Denver, for defendant-appellee.


Opinion by Judge CRISWELL.

Plaintiff, a law firm practicing as a general partnership in Virginia, two of its partners (Watt and Newell), and an associate (Joyce), appeal from judgments of the trial court finding all of them in punitive contempt of court for their failure to engage Colorado counsel to represent them and imposing monetary fines upon each of them for such contempt. The court's findings were grounded upon its...

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