Panhandle Cooperative Royalty Company v. McLain

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

This appeal was perfected after entry of a judgment which, among other things, granted the defendant in error, M. L. Mc-Lain, a peremptory writ of mandamus against the plaintiffs in error, Panhandle Cooperative Royalty Company and its officers, Bill Darnell, V. E. Stinchcomb, W. D. Housh and Mrs. Blanch Blackwell, requiring them to permit the said McLain to examine, and take extracts from, the stockholders’ records and stockholders’ ledger of said Company.

The principal issue at the trial was whether the purpose, for which McLain and other original plaintiffs in the case,…