Derbyshire v. United Builders Supplies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a veil-piercing remedy requires finding “the corporate arrangement was a sham, used to defeat justice, to perpetuate fraud or to evade statutory, contractual or tort responsibility
• disregarding corporate form because president and sole shareholder employed various corporations as his alter ego
• affirming verdict finding sibling corporations and their owner liable for breach of a lease signed by only one of the companies under alter ego and veil piercing doctrines
• finding a man and three corporations acted as a unit where he was each corporation’s president and sole owner and referred to them as interchangeable; some officers worked for more than one corporation; and the corporations produced a common product and were housed in the same building
• “The right for any reason principle does not rise to save the day because a judgment based on an erroneous legal conclusion or theory is reversible error.”
• \The right for any reason principle does not rise to save the day because a judgment based on an erroneous legal conclusion or theory is reversible error.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).