Legal Opinion
Watt, Tieder, Killian & Hoffar v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided August 13, 1992No. 91CA0523PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge CRISWELL.
Plaintiff, a law firm practicing as a general partnership in Virginia, two of its part ners (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 conclusion that the Virginia partnership was a legal entity which could not appear either pro se or through any of its partners in the courts of Colorado. Because we disagree…
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