Legal Opinion · Dissent

Henry v. Babcock & Wilcox Co.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided April 10, 1908Published

Submission of a controversy upon an agreed statement of facts pursuant to section 1279 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

1Dissent

Houghton, J. (dissenting):

Although section 53 of the Stock Corporation Law, dealing with foreign corporations, does not provide, as does section 29 relative to domestic corporations, that the stockholder may make extracts from the stock book, it seems to me that in giving the right to inspect such book of a foreign corporation required to be kept if it has an office for the transaction of business in this State, the Legislature must have intended to give the right to make extracts as an incident to the right of inspection, which it granted.

*542For the reasons stated by me in my dissenting opinion…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People ex rel. Hunter v. National Park Bank of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907

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