Buechner v. Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesell

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• corporate fiction may be disregarded to prevent fraud, and wholly-owned subsidiary may sometimes be treated as instrumentality of parent
• “The corporation is an entity, distinct from its stockholders even if the subsidiary's stock is wholly owned by one person or corporation.”
• “A creditor of the parent corporation may not, in the absence of fraud, disregard the separate existence of a subsidiary corporation and look directly to specific assets of a subsidiary for satisfaction of his claim against the parent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).