Legal Opinion
Dixon v. Process Corp.
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided February 10, 1978No. 585, September Term, 1977PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, C. J.
A commercial corporation is a legal entity conceived by the mind of man and legitimated by statute for the avowed purpose of achieving a maximum profit with a minimum exposure to liability. 1 When such an entity is the parent of multiple offspring in the form of subsidiary corporations, woe unto the creditor who seeks to rip away the corporate facade in order to recover from one sibling of the corporate family what is due from another in the belief that the relationship is inseparable, if not insufferable, for his is a herculean task.
In the matter now before us, William E. Dixon and Ernest J.…
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- Damazo v. WahbyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1970
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