State v. Pan American Co.

Pennewill, J.:

The State of Delaware upon the relation of Count Henri Courcier de Julvecourt, upon March 8 last, filed in this Court a petition for a rule to show cause why a writ of peremptory mandamus should not be issued requiring the Pan American Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, and. Ralph C. Lupton, its resident director, to permit the petitioner to inspect and make copies of sundry books, papers and records of said company. A writ of alternative mandamus was subsequently issued and a motion to quash the same refused. Whereupon the respondents filed their separate returns…