Hauser v. York Water Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

Defendants appeal from a judgment of the court below, which awarded a writ of peremptory mandamus, requiring them to furnish plaintiffs with a list of the stockholders of the York Water Company, one of defendants, or to allow plaintiffs to obtain it from the books of the corporation.

The petition for the writ avers that the company was chartered by this State, and the other defendants are respectively its president and secretary; that petitioners are the owners of 161 shares of its capital stock; that they are dissatisfied with the management of the company, and…