In re Rappleye
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, Hannibal W. Rappléye, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Hew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 10th day .of February, 1899, denying his application for a mandamus to compel an inspection by him of the books and records of. the respondent, the Farmers’ Feed Company.
1Opinion of the Court
Barrett, J.:
The appellant’s application was denied upon the merits. The learned justice at Special Term, upon a careful review of the papers *85presented to him, held that a proper case for the exercise of the court’s discretion had not been made out. We are not disposed to differ with him in this conclusion, but we think that, apart from its merits, the application should have been denied for lack of jurisdiction. The respondent is a foreign corporation, organized under the laws of Hew Jersey, and the appellant is one of its stockholders. It will be observed that the application for an…
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