Williams v. Freeport Sulphur Co.

This suit was brought by appellants as stockholders in the appellee corporations, the Freeport Sulphur Company and the Freeport Texas Company, against the above-named corporations and P. George Maercky, individually and as general manager of the Freeport Sulphur Company, for mandamus to compel the defendants to permit an inspection by plaintiffs of the properties, books, and records of defendant corporations.

For the purposes of this opinion, the allegations of the petition need not be set out at length, and will only be stated to the extent necessary in the elucidation of the questions…