West Concord Conservation Club, Inc. v. Chilson

How courts have described this case

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

• piercing corporate veil when defendant “personally received the proceeds” of a contract with the corporation and the corporation “is now virtually inactive”
• “Every person who undertakes to deal with an agent is put on inquiry and must discover whether the agent has the authority to complete the proposed act”
• to invoke estoppel doctrine, “truth must have been unknown” to party when he acted
• “Negligence by the party invoking [estoppel] may deprive him of its protection.” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).