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DIXON v. PROCESS CORP.

No. 585, September Term, 1977.

38 Md. App. 644 (1978)

382 A.2d 893

WILLIAM E. DIXON ET AL. v. THE PROCESS CORPORATION ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 10, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Corbin, with whom were B. Craig Wald and Corbin, Heller & Warfield, Chartered on the brief, for appellants.

Bayard Z. Hochberg for appellee, The Process Corporation.

The cause was argued before GILBERT, C.J., and DAVIDSON and COUCH, JJ.

GILBERT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

A commercial corporation is a legal entity conceived by the mind of man and legitimated by statute for the avowed purpose of achieving a maximum profit with a minimum exposure to liability.1 When such an entity is the parent of multiple offspring in the form of subsidiary corporations, woe unto the creditor who seeks to rip away the corporate facade in order to recover from one sibling...

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