State Ex Rel. Cotonio v. Italo-American Homestead Ass'n

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a mandamus proceeding brought by a stockholder in a homestead association to compel the association “to permit relator or any person by him designated to examine the books of the association and to make notes or extracts therefrom.” That is all that the relator asks for. He avers that he is a stockholder in the association; that he is the attorney at law for several other stockholders ; that he asked the association for permission, for himself and for his clients, to examine the books of the association and to make notes and extracts therefrom, and that the…