Varney v. Baker

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to obtain an examination of the books of account of the defendant corporation.* The petitioner is the owner of eighty shares of the capital stock of the corporation, the whole number of shares being three hundred and fifty. The respondent Baker admitted that he told the son of the petitioner, three or four *240months before the petition was filed, that the company had lost several thousand dollars. The truth of the statement was not denied, although officers of the company testified that at the time of the hearing, the company was in a prosperous…