State ex rel. O'Hara v. National Biscuit Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel the defendant corpbration and its registered agent in this state to permit the relator to examine its stock and transfer-books during ordinary business hours. The testimony established the following facts: The relator was, on October 11th, 1892, the registered owner of five shares of the common stock of the defendant corporation.
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On rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel the defendant corpbration and its registered agent in this state to permit the relator to examine its stock and transfer-books during ordinary business hours. The testimony established the following facts: The relator was, on October 11th, 1892, the registered owner of five shares of the common stock of the defendant corporation. Oar that day, during ordinary- business hours, he applied to James B. Vredenburgh, Esquire, the registered agent of the said corporation, to be allowed to examine the stock and transfer-books of the said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Garrison, J.
This application involves the question whether the qualified right of a stockholder to inspect the books of his corporation, as that right existed at common law, has, with respect to stock and transfer-books, been transformed into an unqualified right by force of the thirty-third section of the Corporation act of this state. Pamph. L. 1898, p. 409. At common law such restrictions as were imposed upon this right, whether as to mode of procedure or matter of substance, were judicial regulations incident to the exercise of a discretionary…
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