Mutual Trust Life Insurance v. Ecklund Building Co.

Taylor, C.

This controversy is wholly between the defendant Ecklund Building Company and the intervener, White-Price Company. John A. Ecklund had full charge of the Ecklund Building Company and managed and transacted all its business affairs. He seems to have considered himself as constituting the corporation and in transacting its business sometimes used his individual name. For the purposes of this case he and the Ecklund Building Company may be considered as identical and will be designated by the term defendant hereinafter.

In 1926 the defendant desired to erect an apartment building in the…