State ex rel. Quinn v. Thompson's Malted Food Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Waukesha county: Mab.tin L. Lueok, Circuit Judge. This is an application for an alternative writ of mandamus.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Waukesha county: Mab.tin L. Lueok, Circuit Judge. This is an application for an alternative writ of mandamus. The petition sets forth that the Thompson’s Malted Food Company is a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Arizona, and that the defendant Thompson is its president and business manager and the defendant Weigh its secretary; that the outstanding stock of said corporation was sold in Wisconsin; that it has its principal offices in the city of Waukesha in said state; that all of its corporate property, assets, and hooks of…
1Opinion of the CourtBarnes, J.
The hooks sought to he examined were located in Wisconsin and ivere in the custody of officers of the corporation who resided here. All of the property of the corporation, as well as its principal office, is in Wisconsin. The question before us is whether a resident stockholder is entitled to a writ of mandamus to compel the custodians of the corporate records to submit them to such stockholder for examination for the purpose of ascertaining who the stockholders of the corporation are and what they paid for their stock, good faith being admitted. The circuit court answered the question in the…
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