Collateral attack on corporate existence
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 236 U.S. 165 - Wilder Manufacturing Company v. Corn Products Refining Company · 1915Most cited · 501 citing opinions
The rule of general law which does not permit the existence of a corporation to be indirectly attacked. The assertion that it had no legal existence, because it was an unlawful combination in violation of the anti-trust act, was irrelevant to the question of the liability of the manufacturing company to pay for the goods, since such defense was a mere collateral attack on the organization of the corporation, which could not be lawfully made.
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