Contractors Heating and Supply Co. v. Scherb

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, standing alone, without evidence of fraud or some other wrong being perpetrated, informalities in conduct of the business and affairs of the corporation do not form basis for piercing corporate veil
• suggesting that a showing of fraud is required for veil piercing
• finding “a total absence of’ fraud and declining to pierce the corporate veil
• “Standing alone, informalities in the conduce of a corporate business do not form a basis for piercing the corporate veil[;] ... the corporate form ... will not be disregarded unless it was used to perpetrate a fraud or defeat a rightful claim.”
• \[the corporate form ... will not be disregarded unless a clear showing is made that it was used to perpetrate a fraud or defeat a rightful claim\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).