Osborn v. Gilliams

Demurrer to three defenses in the answer. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff was a stockholder owning more than five per centum of the capital stock of the John Osborn’s Sons & Company, a domestic corporation, at a time when the defendant was treasurer thereof; that on the 1st day of November, 1899, she made a written request of the defendant as such treasurer for a statement under oath of the affairs of the corporation, pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided, and which statute is set out in the pleading (Laws of 1890, chap. 36 of the General Laws, as amended by Laws of…