Pratt v. Meriden Cutlery Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for .a mandamus, by the petitioner, a stockholder, to compel the respondents, a joint stock corporation, to keep their books of account at Meriden in this state, where their manufacturing business was carried on and where their principal office was kept, instead of in the city of New York where they kept an establishment for the sale of their goods. The case was brought to the Superior Court in New Haven county, and the following facts were found by the court.
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Application for .a mandamus, by the petitioner, a stockholder, to compel the respondents, a joint stock corporation, to keep their books of account at Meriden in this state, where their manufacturing business was carried on and where their principal office was kept, instead of in the city of New York where they kept an establishment for the sale of their goods. The case was brought to the Superior Court in New Haven county, and the following facts were found by the court. The respondents were organized as a corporation under the statute with regard to joint stock corporations, in the year…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
The statute relating to joint stock corporations, section 407, (Revision of 1866, p. 173,) provides that “ the books of every such corporation, containing their accounts, shall be kept, and shall at all reasonable times be open, in the town where such corporation is located, or at the office of the treasurer, within this state, for the inspection of any of the stockholders of said corporation ; and said stockholders shall have access to the books and statements of said corporation, and shall have the right to examine the same in said town, or at said office ; and as often as once in each…
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