Robertson v. Levy

How courts have described this case

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• holding the Business Corporation Act of the District of Columbia “eliminate[s] the concepts of estoppel and de facto corporateness”
• noting that authorities on MBCA agree that it eliminated de facto corporations
• noting that authorities on MBCA agree that it eliminated de facto corporations
• holding an individual personally liable because the corporation did not exist at the time of the contract and therefore, the individual “assumed to act as a corporation without any authority so to do”
• construing Business Corporation Act of District of Columbia to have eliminated estoppel and de facto corporation, thus rendering individual acting on behalf of putative corporation unconditionally liable
• “The corporation comes into existence only when the certificate has been issued. Before the certificate issues, there is no corporation de jure, de facto, or by estoppel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).