Madigan, Inc. v. Goodman

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BAUER, District Judge.

This cause comes on the plaintiffs’ motion to consolidate the instant ease (“Madigan case”) with Baylor v. Mad-ing-Dugan Drug Company et al., 70 C 2151, D.C., 57 F.Supp. 509 (“Liquidator’s case”) pursuant to Rule 42(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Both suits arose out of the acquisition in December, 1968 of Fidelity General Insurance Company (Fidelity General) by a group of corporations and individuals, including the Mading-Dugan Drug Company (hereinafter the Mading-Du-gan Group) and the subsequent liquidation of Fidelity General.

The…