State ex rel. Bergenthal v. Bergenthal
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. To the point that at common law the right of a stockholder to examine the books of a corporation depended upon his ability to show to the court to which application was made that a special occasion had arisen which rendered it proper that he should have an opportunity to make such an examination in order to enable him to perforin duty which devolved upon him as a stockholder,…
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APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. To the point that at common law the right of a stockholder to examine the books of a corporation depended upon his ability to show to the court to which application was made that a special occasion had arisen which rendered it proper that he should have an opportunity to make such an examination in order to enable him to perforin duty which devolved upon him as a stockholder, they cited Taylor on Ev. sec. 1316; Bex v. Merchant Tailors Go. 2 B. & Ad. 115; Imp. Gas Go. v. Ciarle, 7 Bing. 95;…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The relator, August Bergenthal, filed his petition in the county court of Milwaukee county, asking that an alternative writ of mandamus be issed out of that court, directed to William Bergenthal, requiring him to permit the said relator to have inspection of and to examine certain books of the “ William Bergenthal Company.” The court issued the alternative writ, and thereupon William Bergenthal appeared and moved to quash the writ on the ground that there is a defect of parties defendant, and on the ground that the facts stated in the affidavit- do not show a sufficient cause for granting the…
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