WESGRO made several purchases from SIA through A. Rodriguez SIA vs WESGRO & A.

Rodriguez For sum of money & damages

Rodriguez filed a motion to dismiss

Court rendered decision holding WESGRO & Rodriguez solidarily liable

Whether or not Antonio Rodriguez can be made solidarily liable with the petitioner corporation

*Antonio Rodriguez is a necessary party.

*WESGRO is a recognized corporation

with separate and distinct personality.

*Antonio Rodriguez was an authorized

agent acting in behalf of the corporation, he CANNOT be held solidarily liable.

Pastor Lim died intestate

Rufina Lim filed a petition for the inclusion of 5 corporations to the inventory of the estate Corporations filed a motion for exclusion and presented torrens titles

Whether or not corporate assets may be included in the inventory of the estate.

*Probate court may pass upon issues on

ownership provisionally

*Torrens title cannot be attacked collaterally

*Including the corporate assets is tantamount
to piercing the veil of corporate fiction

Mere ownership by a single stockholder or by another corporation of all or nearly all of the capital stock of a corporation is not of itself a sufficient reason for disregarding the fiction of separate corporate personalities.

Lease contract between Roces and Good Earth Emporium

Good Earth Emporium defaulted in the payment of rentals

Roces filed for ejectment

Good Earth Emporium claims payment of obligation to Roces through Lim Ka Ping

Whether or not the obligation was paid

*Payments were not made to RocesReyes Realty, Inc.

*A corporation has a personality distinct

and separate from its individual stockholders or members. Being an officer or stockholder of a corporation does not make one's property also of the corporation, and vice-versa, for they are separate entities

*As a consequence of the separate

juridical personality of a corporation, the corporate debt or credit is not the debt or credit of the stockholder, nor is the stockholder's debt or credit that of the corporation