State ex rel. Starkey v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.

This is a mandamus action brought by a director-elect of the defendant corporation to require it to allow him to inspect its books and records, to copy them, and for “such other relief as the court may deem just.” The trial court ordered the defendant, Alaska Airlines, Inc., to allow the relator to inspect and copy the corporation books or records, and to admit him to the directorship to which *339he was admittedly elected in August, 1963. Alaska Airlines, Inc., has appealed.

This case arose out of the struggle of the majority shareholder faction, controlled by the incumbent management of the…