Southern Electrical Supply Co. v. Raleigh County National Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• “[D]ecisions to look beyond, inside and through corporate facades must be made case-by-case, with particular attention to factual details.” (footnote omitted)
• summary judgment is appropriate where there are no genuine issues of material fact in dispute, and the matter can be decided by application of rules of law
• “Our state law permits close corporations, with one shareholder, so we cannot disregard a corporation solely because it has one or two, and the same, shareholders.”
• “‘Justice may require that courts look beyond the bare legal relationship of the parties to prevent the corporate form from being used to perpetrate injustice, defeat public convenience or justify wrong.’ ” (citation omitted)
• Summary judgment is appropriate where there are no genuine issues of material fact in dispute, and the matter can be decided by application of rules of law.
• “justice may require that courts look beyond the bare legal relationship of the paities to prevent the corporate form from being used to perpetrate injustice, defeat public convenience or justify wrong...” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).