State Ex Rel. Dendinger v. J. D. Kerr Gravel Co.

This is a proceeding by mandamus to compel the defendant corporation and its president to call a meeting of its stockholders, and also of its board of directors.

The charter provides that the annual meeting of stockholders shall be held on the second Monday of May in each year. On that day in 1924, some of the stockholders assembled for that purpose; but the president protested that one of the stockholders (his wife) had not been notified (by himself), and announced that he would contest the legality of anything' done under the circumstances. Thereupon the assembly parted, and this mandamus…