Ragan v. Tri-County Excavating, Inc.

I respectfully dissent from the Court’s decision to affirm the district court’s March 2, 1994 order. In my view, the district court erred as a matter of law in piercing the corporate veil. This case does not involve exceptional circumstances, nor demand the use of this extraordinary remedy to impose liability on Hartford, an independent third-party surety. Moreover, the district court’s factual findings leave me with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake was committed. In my opinion, the Court embraces, contrary to applicable Pennsylvania law, an overly broad view of the doctrine that…