In re the Petition of Coats
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the Empire City Fire Insurance Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of September, 1902, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding the officers and directors of the Empire City Fire Insurance Company to exhibit to the petitioner the by-laws of said company, or a copy of the same, and of such resolutions of the company as. have the force…
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Appeal by the Empire City Fire Insurance Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of September, 1902, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding the officers and directors of the Empire City Fire Insurance Company to exhibit to the petitioner the by-laws of said company, or a copy of the same, and of such resolutions of the company as. have the force and effect of by-laws, or to permit the petitioner or his attorney to take extracts or copies therefrom between certain…
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The petition instituting this proceeding shows that the petitioner is the owner of more than 500 shares of stock of the Empire City Fire Insurance Company; that he has heretofore applied to said company for a copy of the by-laws of the company and leave to inspect the same, but that his application in each instance has been refused. In a prior proceeding (Matter of Coats, 73 App. Div. 178) an order was obtained by this petitioner for the inspection of *568the books and other papers of the company. Upon appeal this court reversed such order for the reason that it did not provide proper…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Matter of SteinwayNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Rathbun v. . SnowNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- In re CoatsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
3Cited by1 opinion
- Goldberg v. Creative Country Day School, Inc.New York Supreme Court · 1960