Baird v. King
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Barnes
This appeal is from an order directing the issuance of a writ of mandamus against appellants to admit appellee (the petitioner), as a stockholder of the defendant corporation, and his attorneys to its offices, and to give him and them complete access to all its books of account and records, which he charged in his petition was denied him both by its manager after he had consulted defendant King, its president, and later by the latter and Morrison, its secretary, after a demand had been made upon them.
Defendants offered to show that the petitioner, though a stockholder, sought examination of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Stone v. KelloggIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
- Venner v. Chicago City Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1910
- Furst v. W. T. Rawleigh Medical Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1918
- Maremont v. Old Colony Life InsuranceAppellate Court of Illinois · 1914