William Coale Development Co. v. Kennedy

The same principle is in each and all of these cases, and they will he disposed of in one opinion. They involve the right of stockholders to inspect, and take copies thereof, all books, records, papers, contracts, and other written documents, and to inspect all assets of every kind belonging to the corporation. The defendants in error claim the right so to do at any reasonable time. The plaintiffs in error respectively deny the existence of the right in all cases where the corporation has furnished to its stockholders from its books at reasonable intervals full statements of all the business…