Nationwide Corp. v. Northwestern National Life Insurance

Knutson, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered pursuant to a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring defendant 1 to permit plaintiff to examine its books and copy its lists of participating policyholders and shareholders and from a temporary injunction restraining defendant from soliciting proxies from participating policyholders until plaintiff shall have completed copying such lists.

Defendant is a Minnesota corporation engaged in the life insurance business. It is concededly engaged in interstate commerce. It is characterized as a stock and mutual company and is authorized by M.…