Fontana v. TLD Builders, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• listing, among other factors, \commingling of funds\ and \diversion of assets\ as relevant considerations for the unity of interest prong
• disregarding corporate entity where business acted as the “alter ego” or “conduit” for another person
• discussing piercing of the corporate veil with regard to non-shareholder of a corporation
• “[S]hareholders should in good faith put at the risk of the business unencumbered capital reasonably adequate for the corporation’s prospective liabilities.”
• the parties’ intent is “best *** determined by considering the contract as a whole, reviewing each part in light of the others”
• “as finder of fact, it was the trial court’s role in a bench trial to assess the credibility of witnesses”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).