Shea v. Parker
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 12, 1919, under St. 1903, c. 437, § 30, to compel the defendant, clerk of Nonquitt Spinning Company, a Massachusetts business corporation, to produce for examination, and to permit the plaintiff or his attorney, with as many assistants as may be necessary, to examine all the stock and transfer books of the corporation and to take copies and abstracts therefrom, upon such conditions as the court may prescribe, and…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 12, 1919, under St. 1903, c. 437, § 30, to compel the defendant, clerk of Nonquitt Spinning Company, a Massachusetts business corporation, to produce for examination, and to permit the plaintiff or his attorney, with as many assistants as may be necessary, to examine all the stock and transfer books of the corporation and to take copies and abstracts therefrom, upon such conditions as the court may prescribe, and that the defendants be ordered to furnish such facilities and such assistance in such examination as the court might deem…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
By St. 1903, c. 437, § 30, “. . . The stock and transfer books of every corporation, which shall contain a complete list of all stockholders, their residences and the amount of stock held by each, shall be kept at an office of the corporation in this Commonwealth for the inspection of its stockholders. ... If any officer or agent of a corporation having charge of such . . . books . . . refuses or neglects to exhibit them or to submit them to examination ... he or the corporation shall be liable to any stockholder for all actual damages sustained by reason of such refusal or neglect, and the…
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