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· 8/30/1979

Grayson v. Nordic Construction Co.

Citations

  • 599 P.2d 1271
  • 92 Wash. 2d 548
  • 1979 Wash. LEXIS 1424

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 corporation’s separate legal identity is not lost merely because all of its stock is held by members of a single family or by one person”
  • refusing to pierce corporate veil but holding officer personally liable under responsible corporate officer doctrine
  • \[A] corporation's separate legal identity is not lost merely because all of its stock is held by members of a single family or by one person.\
  • ‘‘if a corporate officer participates in wrongful conduct or with knowledge approves of the conduct, then the officer, as well as the corporation, is liable for the penalties’’
  • “A corporation exists as an organization distinct from the personality of its 5 shareholders.”
  • requires 8 a demonstration of an overt intention to disregard the corporate entity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Brachtenbach, Dolliver, Hicks, Horowitz, Rosellini, Skimas, Tern, Utter, Williams, Wright

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