State v. Ridgeway Brands Manufacturing, LLC

TIMMONS-GOODSON,

Justice.

In this opinion, we address two issues. First, in a claim by the State seeking to pierce the corporate veil of a corporate defendant, is defendant’s purported alter ego considered a new party? We hold that when the corporate defendant is the mere instrumentality, or alter ego, of the individual defendant, the individual is not considered a new party. Second, in this case did the State’s complaint allege sufficient facts to support a cause of action for civil conspiracy? Since the complaint contended that plaintiff had been injured by a wrongful act committed as part of…