Allen v. Tomasino

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• placing the burden of proof on the party asserting that a court should “disregard” the separate legal identity of a corporation
• applying a mixed standard of review to determine whether to “disregard” the separate corporate natures of a parent and subsidiary entity
• finding that “different interpretations and inherent conflicts demonstrate ambiguity”
• applying this burden of proof in the context of piercing the corporate veil
• stating “on appeal we are not bound by the trial court’s interpretation of the contract provision at issue; rather, we have an equal opportunity to consider the words of the contract within the four corners of the instrument itself’
• an appellate court has ‘“an equal opportunity to consider the words of the contract within the four corners of the instrument itself”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).