Standard Planing Mill v. Pacific Coast Paper Co.

On June 29, 1931, the receiver of the Routt Lumber Company, an alleged bankrupt, was directed by the trial court to take' charge of all the assets of the Standard Planing Mill. From this order the Standard Planing Mill appeals. The order was based Upon the conclusion that the alleged bankrupt corporation was so intimately related with the Standard Planing Mill and its business as to justify the court in concluding that they were in substance and effect one and the same. The order was made upon the petition of Pacific Coast Paper Company, Pacific Portland Cement Company, Sloss & Brittain, and A. Holm, assignee of Redwood Manufacturers’ Company, Wendling-Nalhan Company, and Sugar Pine Lumber Company, Limited, all alleged creditors of the alleged bankrupt, whose claims aggregated over $25,-000, who alleged that “the Standard Planing Mill, a corporation, and the Routt Lumber Company, a corporation, are the business conduit and alter ego each of the other, and that the Standard Planing Mill is in fact and in substance the Routt Lumber Company under another name.” The petition then asserts the reasons for the contention which the creditors thus advanced. These reasons may be summarized…