Home Insurance v. Crawford

I cannot agree with the majority opinion, because it disregards the separate corporate identities of First Federal Savings & Loan Association and Silliman Agency, Inc., in order to find evidence that an employee of the former was an agent of the latter. The corporate structure is to be disregarded only when it has been illegally abused to the injury of another. Arkla Chemical Co. v. Palmer, 250 Ark. 405 (1971), 465 S. W. 2d 335. This rule has been recognized as being applicable even where the two corporations involved were parent and subsidiary. Rounds & Porter Lumber Co. v. Burns, 216 Ark.…