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POYNER v. LEAR SIEGLER, INC.

No. 75-1939.

542 F.2d 955 (1976)

Joe Terry POYNER, by and through his statutory guardian, Dorothy Poyner, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LEAR SIEGLER, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided October 14, 1976.

Rehearing Denied November 30, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Roberts, Threlkeld, Whitlow & Roberts, Paducah, Ky., for defendant-appellant.

Charles A. Williams, Paducah, Ky., for Joe Terry Poyner.

George R. Effinger, Boehl, Stopher, Graves & Deindoerfer, Paducah, Ky., for L. A. Distributors, Inc.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and McCREE and LIVELY, Circuit Judges.

McCREE, Circuit Judge.

Lear Siegler, Inc. (LSI) appeals from a judgment against it in behalf of Joe Terry Poyner (Poyner). The district court held LSI liable under a default judgment previously obtained by Poyner against Erma Werke GmbH1 (Erma), LSI's wholly owned subsidiary. Because we conclude that under Kentucky law the separate corporate identities of LSI and Erma should not have been disregarded, we reverse.

Poyner, a sixteen...

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