People ex rel. Miles v. Montreal & Boston Copper Co.

This is an application for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the respondent Montreal and Boston Copper Company to deposit and keep open for inspection in its office, or the office of the respondents Monroe & Monroe, its transfer agents, its stock-book in accordance with the provisions of section 53 of the .Stock Corporation Law (L. 1892, ch. 688, as amd. by L. 1897, ch. 384, § 3). .

*283That section provides: “ Every foreign stock corporation having an office for the transaction of business in this state, except moneyed and railroad corporations, shall keep therein a book to be known as a…