Feil v. Greater Lakeside Corp.

Iil respectfully dissent. In my view, the trial court misapplied the law and violated the fundamental principle that gives corporations a separate legal existence from their shareholders.1

A court can pierce the corporate veil under certain circumstances, in order to reach the “alter ego” of the corporate member and hold the corporate member hable for the debts of the corporation.2 Common control or ownership, however, does not authorize a court to ignore the boundaries between two separately incorporated entities. “Before the corporate entity is disregarded on the basis it is simply the alter…