State Ex Rel. Johnston v. Welch's Market

Relator, James Johnston, as a stockholder of Welch’s Market, a domestic corporation, sought an order requiring the corporation and its pres ident and manager to show cause why they should not be required

“ . . . to permit an inspection of all of the books, papers and records of said corporation having to do with its corporate affairs, and to allow plaintiff to make extracts from such books,”

and why the statutory penalty for refusal to permit such inspection should not be exacted.

The action is based on Rem. Rev. Stat., §§ 3827 and 3828, reading as follows:

“It shall be the duty of the trustee of…