Gentry v. Credit Plan Corporation of Houston

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• holding, based on considerable amount of evidence that party initially served was alter ego of party served after passage of limitations period, that service on alter ego tolled running of limitations period on subsequently served party
• holding, based on considerable amount of evidence that party initially served was alter ego of party served after passage of limitations period, that service on alter ego tolled running of limitations period on subsequently served party
• tolling limitations to prevent use of corporate entity “as a cloak for fraud or illegality or to work an injustice”
• refusing to abate an appeal from a judgment awarded to a debtor in an unreasonable collection case where the debtor died pending resolution of his case on appeal
• explaining that a subsidiary corporation will be regarded as the alter ego of its parent A where management and operations are assimilated to the extent that the subsidiary is simply a name or conduit through which the parent conducts its business . . . @
• suing subsidiary will toll limitation against parent if alter ego is proven

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