Kothmann v. Southwest Co.

BOBBITT, Justice.

Appellee sued upon a promissory note, payable to it, executed by appellant, for the principal sum of $4,000. It appears that appellee corporation, Southwest Co., Inc., and Southwest Security Company, a Nevada corporation, and Lloyds Southwest Insurers, though separate legal entities, were operated or controlled by the same persons, had common offices and telephones, and, for all practical purposes, were convenient legal fictions; and, in so far as the transaction here involved is concerned, were all dominated and used by George Guthrie, who was the president of 'the two named…