The Butterick Company, Inc., a Corporation v. Honorable Hubert L. Will

KILEY, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition for mandamus to compel respondent to vacate an order denying petitioner’s motion to transfer a case to the Southern District of New York, and to compel entry of an order transferring the case. This court issued a rule to show cause, and respondent answered.

The underlying ease in the District Court, an action in equity, is Schiek v. The Butterick Company, Inc., a New York corporation with principal place of business in New York City, to enforce payment of dividends to Schiek, an Illinois citizen, who owns 200 of the 32,406 shares of the non-cumulative…