Multimedia Publishing of South Carolina, Inc. v. Mullins

Harwell, Chief Justice:

J. R. Mullins (Mullins), the sole director and shareholder of Food Stores of Greenville (FSG), petitioned for writ of certiorari, alleging that the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the trial judge’s application of the “fundamental unfairness” prong of the test for piercing FSG’s corporate veil. Multimedia Publishing of South Carolina, Inc. v. Mullins, Op. No. 92-UP-079 (S.C. Ct. App. filed April 16,1992). We disagree and affirm.

I. FACTS

In 1987, Mullins, the owner or majority shareholder of approximately eighteen corporations across the southeast, incorporated Food…