People v. American Press Ass'n
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the-American Press Association, from an ,order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8th day of December, 1911.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
This is an appeal from an order granting relator’s motion for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant corporation to permit him to' inspect its stock book.
Relator is the owner of five shares of stock of the defendant corporation, and has demanded and been refused the right to inspect its stock book. The defendant meets the application *652by the statement of certain facts leading to.the conclusion that the application is made in the interest of a business rival of the defendant, and that relator’s purpose in seeking an examina- . tion is, in the language of the justice at Special…
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