87 Ga. App. 469 - Condenser Service & Engineering Co. v. Brunswick Port Authority’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

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1. “Volumes have been written on the subject of `piercing the corporate veil,' etc. Many theories have been advanced as to the reasons why courts should disregard the separate corporate existence of a one-man corporation or a subsidiary corporation. By whatever means the conclusion to disregard corporate entity is arrived at, when it is reached it merely means that under the facts of the case the person or corporation in control of the subservient corporation is held liable for the acts or omissions of the subservient corporation. No hard and fast rule can be laid down, but it seems clear that so long as the law authorizes the formation of subservient corporations, the law would defeat its own purpose by disregarding its own creature merely because a parent corporation, or other sole owner, controls the subsidiary, or one-man corporation, and uses it and controls it to promote his or its ends. This principle has been stated many times. [citing cases] * * * 26 There is no allegation that the incorporation of Conseco was a sham or that it was used to defeat a public convenience, to justify wrong, protect fraud, defend crime, or any other reason which in equity and good conscience would justify the disregard of Conseco's separate entity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Maley v. Carroll