Walter v. Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.

As a matter of brevity, the defendant corporation Four Wheel Drive Auto Company will hereinafter be referred to as the “Auto Company;” and an allied corporation named the Four Wheel Drive Sales Company will be referred to as the “Sales Company.” The Sales Company was a separate corporation incorporated in 1929 to sell the entire output manufactured by the Auto Company. They had offices in the same building at Clintonville, Wisconsin, and Walter Olen was the president of both corporations.

The issues of fact raised by the pleadings, as indicated in the foregoing statement, were, excepting as to…