United States Fifth Circuit

In a complaint for injuries and damages after a boating accident, 1) the corporate veil of a boat manufacturer and its successor corporation was properly pierced, 2) successor liability existed where one corporation was a "mere continuation" of the other, and 3) the successor (and individual "alter ego") were bound by the predecessor corporation's voluntary submission to personal jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2002
• Published 06/12/2002

Judges

• KING, Chief Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and HIGGINBOTHAM and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• E. Wade Shows (argued), John C. Walsh, Shows, Cali & Berthelot, Baton Rouge, LA, for George and Laura Patin, Boley and Watkins., David C. Forrester (argued), Victor Lawrence Crowell, Forrester, Jordan & Dick, Baton Rouge, LA, for Louisiana Farm Bureau Ins. Co., Lawrence R. Anderson, Jr. (argued), Seale, Smith, Zuber & Barnette, Baton Rouge, LA, for Thoroughbred Power Boats Inc., Stepp and Velocity Power Boats Ins.