Phœnix Iron Co. v. Commonwealth ex rel. Sellers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 2, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1886, No. 81. On January 27tb, 1883, George H. Sellers, a stockholder in the Phoenix Iron Company, which is a manufacturing corporation having no franchise but that of corporate existence, applied for a writ of alternative mandamus to compel the production for inspection of books and papers, to enable bim to prepare a stockholders’ bill in equity in respect of certain alleged grievances.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 2, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1886, No. 81. On January 27tb, 1883, George H. Sellers, a stockholder in the Phoenix Iron Company, which is a manufacturing corporation having no franchise but that of corporate existence, applied for a writ of alternative mandamus to compel the production for inspection of books and papers, to enable bim to prepare a stockholders’ bill in equity in respect of certain alleged grievances. In answer to a rule to show cause, the defendants resisted the prayer of the petition on two grounds: 1. Because there was no…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
This proceeding originated in an application by George H. Sellers, for a writ of alternative mandamus, against the Phoenix Iron Company, a manufacturing corporation, to compel the company to produce for inspection their books and papers, to enable him to prepare a stockholder’s bill in equitjq in respect of certain grievances, which the relator alleges he has sustained by the fraudulent mismanagement of the affairs of the company.
On the hearing of the rule to show cause, the defendants resisted the application on two grounds; first, that there was no right to relief, in this form, that the…
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