People ex rel. McInnes v. Columbia Paper Bag Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, the Columbia Paper Bag Company and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Hew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 1st day of February, 1905, granting the relator’s application for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
■ The relator, a director and stockholder of the defendant, a domestic corporation doing business in the city of Hew York, applied to the court fora peremptory mandamus to require the president and treasurer of the corporation to exhibit to him, his attorney, accountant and assistants, all books of account, records and papers of the defendant corporation. The motion was granted, and from the order entered thereupon the defendant corporation and the president thereof, who is also a defendant, appeal.
Whether the relator was entitled to the writ as a stockholder we need not…
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