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the injury or unjust loss complained of. The absence of any one of
these elements prevents „piercing the corporate veil.‰ In applying
the „instrumentality‰ or „alter ego‰ doctrine, the courts are
concerned with reality and not form, with how the corporation
operated and the individual defendantÊs relationship to the
operation.
Same; Same; Same; Agency; A suit against an agent cannot
without compelling reasons be considered a suit against the
principal.·In any case, the parent-subsidiary relationship between
PNB and PNB-IFL is not the significant legal relationship involved
in this case since the petitioner was not sued because it is the
parent company of PNB-IFL. Rather, the petitioner was sued
because it acted as an attorney-in-fact of PNB-IFL in initiating the
foreclosure proceedings. A suit against an agent cannot without
compelling reasons be considered a suit against the principal.
Under the Rules of Court, every action must be prosecuted or
defended in the name of the real party-in-interest, unless otherwise
authorized by law or these Rules. In mandatory terms, the Rules
require that „parties-in-interest without whom no final
determination can be had, an action shall be joined either as
plaintiffs or defendants.‰ In the case at bar, the injunction suit is
directed only against the agent, not the principal.
Same; Preliminary Injunction; A writ of preliminary injunction
is an ancillary or preventive remedy that may only be resorted to by
a litigant to protect or preserve his rights or interests and for no
other purpose during the pendency of the principal action·the
dismissal of the principal action thus results in the denial of the
prayer for the issuance of the writ.·Anent the issuance of the
preliminary injunction, the same must be lifted as it is a mere
provisional remedy but adjunct to the main suit. A writ of
preliminary injunction is an ancillary or preventive remedy that
may only be resorted to by a litigant to protect or preserve his
rights or interests and for no other purpose during the pendency of
the principal action. The dismissal of the principal action thus
results in the denial of the prayer for the issuance of the writ.
Same; Same; An injunctive remedy may only be resorted to
when there is a pressing necessity to avoid injurious consequences
which cannot be remedied under any standard compensation.·An
injunctive remedy may only be resorted to when there is a pressing
necessity to avoid injurious consequences which cannot be remedied
under any standard compensation. Respondents do not deny their
indebtedness. Their properties are
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7 Rollo, p. 266.
8 Id., at 270.
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personal rights, obligations and transactions of the latter.
The mere fact that a corporation owns all of the stocks of
another corporation, taken alone is not sufficient to justify
their being treated as one entity. If used to perform
legitimate functions, a subsidiaryÊs separate existence may
be respected, and the liability of the parent corporation as
well as the subsidiary will be confined to those arising in
their respective
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(a) The parent corporation owns all or most of the capital stock
of the subsidiary.
(b) The parent and subsidiary corporations have common
directors or officers.
(c) The parent corporation finances the subsidiary.
(d) The parent corporation subscribes to all the capital stock of
the subsidiary or otherwise causes its incorporation.
(e) The subsidiary has grossly inadequate capital.
(f) The parent corporation pays the salaries and other expenses
or losses of the subsidiary.
(g) The subsidiary has substantially no business except with
the parent corporation or no assets except those conveyed to
or by the parent corporation.
(h) In the papers of the parent corporation or in the statements
of its officers, the subsidiary is described as a department or
division of the parent corporation, or its business or
financial responsibility is referred to as the parent
corporationÊs own.
(i) The parent corporation uses the property of the subsidiary
as its own.
(j) The directors or executives of the subsidiary do not act
independently in the interest of the subsidiary but take
their orders from the parent corporation.
(k) The formal legal requirements of the subsidiary are not
observed.
In the case at bar only two of the eleven listed indicia occur, namely,
the ownership of most of the capital stock of Lenoir by Southern,
and possibly subscription to the capital stock of Lenoir . . . The
complaint must be dismissed.
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