Crown Coal & Tow Co. v. Thomas
Appellate Court of Illinois
Mandamus, to compel a corporation to keep its books in this State. Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair County; the Hon. Alonzo S. Wilderman, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the February term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Mb. Presiding Justice Scofield
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Appellee, who is one of appellant’s stockholders, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus against appellant, a stock corporation duly incorporated under the general laws of this State relating to corporations for pecuniary profit, to enforce a compliance with the requirements of Sec. 13 of Ohap. 32, of the act concerning such corporations (1 Starr & Curtis Statutes, p. 616), which section is as follows: “It shall be the duty of the directors or trustees of every stock corporation to cause to be ke£t at its principal office or…
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