Rounds & Porter Lumber Co. v. Burns

The appellant is a Kansas corporation that owns about thirty retail lumber yards in Kansas and Oklahoma. This suit was filed by the appellee to hold the appellant liable for failure to account for lumber valued at $8,000. The defense is that the appellee’s cause of action is against another corporation, the Taylor Oak Flooring Company. The chancellor found that the appellant had so dominated and controlled the Flooring Company that the separate entities of the two corporations should he disregarded. The appellee recovered judgment for $5,830.76, and this appeal followed.

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