Soreno Hotel Co. v. State Ex Rel. Otis Elevator Co.

This cause is here upon writ of error to review an order granting a motion of the relator in a mandamus proceeding to strike the return of the respondent, Soreno Hotel Company. The Plaintiff in Error was respondent below and Defendant in Error was relator below.

The two first questions presented for review are similar and involve the point as to whether Section 6013 Compiled General Laws of 1927 abrogates that portion of the common law rule which gives any stockholder of a private corporation the right to inspect the records and books of accounts of such corporation at a proper time and place…