Stern v. South Chester Tube Co.

DAVIS, District Judge.

The plaintiff stockholders have instituted this diversity action solely to compel the corporate defendant to permit them “to examine [its] share register, [its] books of account and records, the records of the proceedings of its shareholders and directors, and the books and records of account of its subsidiary corporation.”

The matter now before the court is the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter. The defendant contends first of all that the United States District Court has no power to grant relief solely in the…