Alexis v. Coker

Raleigh J. Coker, the president of Supreme Industrial Life Insurance Company, Inc., has appealed from a judgment of mandamus condemning him to call a regular meeting of the board of directors of the corporation on the fourth Tuesday of the month of September 1947, and regularly on the fourth Tuesday of each and every succeeding month, as set forth in the charter and by-laws of the said corporation.

The plaintiffs-appellees are Lucien V. Alexis and Gustave C. Chapital, two of the members of the directorate.

[1] The defense of Coker is that it would be inequitable to force the calling of meetings…