DeWITT TRUCK BROKERS v. W. RAY FLEMMING FRUIT CO.

No. 75-1653.

540 F.2d 681 (1976)

DeWITT TRUCK BROKERS, INC., Appellee, v. W. RAY FLEMMING FRUIT COMPANY and W. Ray Flemming, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 13, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Ray Berry, Columbia, S. C., for appellants.

Henry H. Taylor, West Columbia, S. C. (Dent, Kirkland, Taylor & Wilson, West Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and THOMSEN, Senior District Judge.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

In this action on debt, the plaintiff seeks, by piercing the corporate veil under the law of South Carolina, to impose individual liability on the president of the indebted corporation individually.1 The District Court, making findings of fact which may be overturned only if clearly erroneous, pierced the corporate veil and imposed individual liability. The individual defendant appeals. We affirm.

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