335 Ill. App. 3d 435 - Witters v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 86 Ill. 2d 291 - PSL Realty Co. v. Granite Investment Co. · 6 Ill. App. 3d 488 - Compton v. Paul K. Harding Realty Co. · Ramsay v. VanMeter · Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation v. Psl Realty Co · 68 Ill. App. 3d 610 - Poulakidas v. Charalidis
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“The Buffalo route was a mail route operated by MWT. MWT pays for all fuel and other operating costs. MWT employees operate the route and handle all the paperwork for the route. MWT financial statements show a line item for revenue from the Buffalo route. Although maintained in Hicks name, since its inception, revenue for the Buffalo route had been transferred to MWT. Since the beginning of the present suit, Hicks retained the revenue from the route, although it continues to be operated by MWT and at MWT’s expense. Hicks acknowledges that several MWT trucks are used to operate the Buffalo route, but he argues that MWT uses 68 of his trucks but pays him nothing. Not only does this not justify Hicks’ use of MWT assets and personnel to operate a route which is in his name and from which he keeps all revenue, but it also is exactly the type of commingling of personal and corporate assets that justifies the appointment of a receiver.”
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