State ex rel. Knoll v. Levert

His Honor, EMILE GODCHAUX,

rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:

The charter of the Shirley Planting Company provides that the annual meeting of its stockholders for the election of directors, etc., shall he held on the first Monday in March, 1914, and annually thereafter. The plaintiffs, owning and representing more than two-thirds of the stock of the Company, are seeking by mandamus to compel the calling and convening of such annual meeting of stockholders. They allege and have proved that they sought to have convoked the regular annual meeting on the first Monday in…