White v. Manter
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions iby defendant. This is a petition for mandamus to compel the defendant, as clerk of the New England Land Company, a corporation, to allow the petitioner to examine the records and stock book of the corporation and to take copies and minutes therefrom of such parts as concern her interests as stockholder in said corporation.
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On exceptions iby defendant. This is a petition for mandamus to compel the defendant, as clerk of the New England Land Company, a corporation, to allow the petitioner to examine the records and stock book of the corporation and to take copies and minutes therefrom of such parts as concern her interests as stockholder in said corporation. The defendant moved to quash the alternative writ, because the petitioner did not state in her petition the purpose for which she desired to examine the books. This motion was denied and the defendant excepted. After a hearing a peremptory writ was ordered to…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
Petition for mandamus to compel the defendant, as clerk of the New England Eand Company, a corporation, to allow' the petitioner to examine the records and stock book of the corporation and to take copies and minutes therefrom of such parts as concern her interests.
The petitioner is a stockholder in the defendant corporation. In her petition she does not state the purpose for which she desires to examine the books. And for this reason the defendant moved to quash the alternative writ. The motion was denied, and the defendant took an exception. After hearing a peremptory writ was ordered to…
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