47 Mich. App. 236 - Elliott v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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1. ““There is . . .no requirement in Michigan law today that for valid corporate existence there must be a specified, or a minimum, number of stockholders. Nor do we find allegations or proofs of fraud, sham, or other improper use of the corporate form justifying our ‘piercing the veil’ of corporate existence. The one-man corporation . . . is no stranger to the law. That a corporation is under the domination of a principle stockholder who may be entitled to all of its profits violates no requirement of our statute law, is not opposed to public policy, and constitutes no fraud on creditors.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 486 F. Supp. 774 - Choate v. Landis Tool Co.