Legal Opinion
Catamount Construction v. Timmis Enterprises
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided October 9, 2008No. S-08-0023PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KITE, Justice.
[T1] General contractor Catamount Construction (Catamount) filed suit against several of its subcontractors, alleging defective work on a house in Cheyenne. The subeon-tractors filed motions to dismiss, asserting that Catamount had no standing to maintain its suit because it was defunct as the result of bankruptey. The district court granted the subcontractors' motions. On appeal, we conclude that corporate existence is a matter of state law and, under Wyoming law, a dissolved corporation may sue and be sued. Catamount, therefore, has standing to maintain this action.
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