Sage v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term denying an application for a mandamus to compel the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company and its directors to exhibit to petitioners, stockholders of said corporation, its transfer book 'and list of stockholders.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term denying an application for a mandamus to compel the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company and its directors to exhibit to petitioners, stockholders of said corporation, its transfer book 'and list of stockholders. The said corporation was organized under the act chapter 917, Laws of 1869, by the consolidation of several railroad corporations, one of which was a domestic corporation. A member of a corporation has, by the common law, the right to an…
1Per curiam
We are of the opinion that the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Bailway Co. is a domestic and not a foreign corporation, and hence that chap. 165, S. L. of 1842, has no application to this case, but to the transfer agents of such corporations. Being subject to the duties and obligations of the laws relating to domestic corporations, it comes within the provisions of the Bevised Statutes, vol. 1, Edm. ed., 558, which contains special provisions in regard to the books containing the names of stockholders and authorizes an examination of the same within thirty days previous to any election of…
2Cited by19 opinions
- Venner v. Chicago City Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1910
- In Re the Appraisal, Under the Transfer Tax Act, of the Estate of CooleyNew York Court of Appeals · 1906
- Kimball v. DernUtah Supreme Court · 1911
- Smith v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1907
- Steckler v. Pennroad Corp.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1943
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