State ex rel. Beaty v. Guarantee Manufacturing Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Smith, J., entered September 5, 1917, in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for a writ of man-damns to compel the officers of a corporation to permit a stockholder to inspect corporate records, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
— The Guarantee Manufacturing Company, a corporation, appellant, has its office and principal place of business in Seattle, where, since April, 1912, it has been engaged in manufacturing and selling planer knives, etc., for saw machinery. E. E. Beaty, respondent, has been engaged in the same kind of business in Seattle since February, 1912. Both parties' admit a state of active competition between them, one •expressing it as “earnest, decided and positive.” Appellants Conforth, Smith and Himes have been officers of the corporation since its organization and own all •of the 100 shares of its…
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