Newark Morning Ledger Co. v. Republican Company

FRANCIS J. W. FORD, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a New Jersey corporation and a minority stockholder of defendant The Republican Company, a Massachusetts corporation, brings this diversity action for an order directing the defendants to permit plaintiff to examine the property and all books of account and records of The Republican Company and to make copies and abstracts therefrom. Defendants move to dismiss.

The only relief specifically sought by plaintiff is clearly an order in the nature of mandamus. In the Massachusetts courts mandamus would be the proper procedural remedy to provide the full…