State Ex Rel. Armour & Co. v. Gulf Sulphur Corp.

QUILLEN, Judge.

Armour and Company (Armour), as a shareholder, has petitioned the Court for a writ of mandamus requiring Gulf Sulphur Corporation (Gulf) to make available to Armour certain books and records of Gulf. In particular, Armour, by letter dated February 16, 1967, demanded permission to examine and copy the following:

“1. The original or duplicate stock ledger of the Company;

“2. The minutes of the Board of Directors of the Company and all of its subsidiaries and the minutes, if any, of Executive Committees of such boards since January 1, 1963 to date of examination ;

“3. All books of…