Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• courts will only look through the corporate veil to “accomplish ... essential justice”
• courts will only look through the corporate veil to \accomplish . . . essential justice\
• in criminal case, trial court has many powers not found in express statutory language
• courts will only look through the corporate veil to “accomplish ... essential justice”
• defendant’s presence at several planning sessions to bribe a public official was in his capacity as an officer of one of a group of companies contributing to the bribe
• a corporation “has no existence separate and distinct from those whom it has clothed with authority and commissioned to act for it whether such individuals are directors, officers, shareholders or employees”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).