Ivins v. Hub Machine Welding & Contracting Co.

Citations

• 68 Pa. Super. 370
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 133

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Two companies of same name — Liability.</p> <p>Where a corporation of Pennsylvania doing a general machine and repair business, and a New Jersey corporation organized to conduct a general garage business, have substantially the same stockholders, with the same president, officers, bank account, bookkeeping and employees and doing business under the same roof, the Pennsylvania company may be held liable for the value of an automobile delivered to the New Jersey company for repair and never returned, where it appears that the president of the two companies promised to return it, and there is evidence that the Pennsylvania company sent a bill for repairs to the plaintiff.</p>