Refrigeration Discount Corp. v. Catino

How courts have described this case

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

• “All parties engaged in committing a conversion of the goods of another may be held jointly and severally liable for the wrong.”
• defendant could be held liable for -30- conversion of property even though he was acting as corporation’s general manager and for its benefit
• corporate officer personally liable for a tort in which he participated without the necessity of employing piercing the corporate veil analysis
• “As to third persons, a corporate officer . . . cannot be held liable unless he commits a breach of a duty which he owes such person”
• one who was president, director, and general manager of a corporation and who engaged in conversion of property could be held personally liable even though he acted for benefit of corporation
• “An officer of a corporation does not incur personal liability for a tort committed by a corporation or by one of its officers merely by virtue of the office which he holds in the corporation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).