People ex rel. McInnes v. Columbia Paper Bag Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from Special Term, New York County. Mandamus by the people, on relation of Hugh Mclnnes, against the Columbia Paper Bag Company and another. From an order granting a peremptory writ, defendants appeal. Modified.
1Opinion of the CourtPatterson, J.
The relator, a director and stockholder of the defendant, a domestic corporation doing business in the city of New York, applied to the court for a peremptory mandamus to require the president and treasurer of the- corporation to exhibit to him, his attorney, accountant, and assistants, all books of account, records, and papers of the defendant corporation. The motion was granted, and from the order entered thereupon the defendant corporation and the president thereof, who is also a defendant, appeal.
Whether the relator was entitled to the writ as a stockholder, we need not consider. He was a…
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