State Ex Rel. Fisher v. Greene

The relator, James Fisher, instituted this action against appellant, secretary of the Flathead Petroleum Company, a corporation, to secure an order permitting the inspection of the stock hooks of the company and for a penalty for the refusal to allow the inspection... The law granting this right of inspection provides as follows:

' “It shall be the duty of the trustees of every company incorporated under this chapter, to keep a hook containing the names of all persons, alphabetically arranged, who are or shall be stockholders of the corporation . . . which book, during the business hours of…