Private Investors, Inc. v. Homestake Mining Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment directing the issuance of a writ of mandate to compel the defendant corporation to permit an inspection by plaintiff, a stockholder in said corporation, of certain books and records thereof. During the pendency of this appeal, the defendant corporation applied for a writ of supersedeas, which application was denied. (Homestake Mining Co. v. Superior Court, 11 Cal. App. (2d) 488 [54 Pac. (2d) 535].) Thereafter the inspection was made. The defendants subsequently filed their brief as appellants herein. Plaintiff then made a motion to dismiss the appeal or…