Matter of Steinway
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 15, 1898, reversing an order of the Special Term which denied an application for a writ of peremptory mandamus, and granting the writ. The facts, so far as material, and the question certified for review, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 15, 1898, reversing an order of the Special Term which denied an application for a writ of peremptory mandamus, and granting the writ. The facts, so far as material, and the question certified for review, are stated in the opinion. The appellants have the right of appeal on the whole case under the Code, independently of the certification of the Appellate Division. (Code Civ. Pro. §§ 190, 2087; People ex rel. v. N. T. C. & H. R. R. R. Co., 156 N. Y. 579.) .The…
1Opinion of the CourtYam, J.
Stein way & Sons, once a copartnership, became a corporation in 1876 under the General Manufacturing Act of 1848, and the relator has been a stockholder therein ever since. lie now holds 1,440 shares of its stock of the par value of $144,000, out of a total of 20,000 shares of the value of $2,000,000, but with an actual value much in excess of that sum. He has not been an 'officer of the corporation since 1881, and he has had no means of knowing much about the management of its affairs since 1892, when he was given an opportunity to examine the books. Since then he has been substantially…
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