Brown v. Crystal Ice Co.

On the first of June, 1908, Bawdry Brown filed a bill against the defendant company, in which he alleged, in substance, that he was the owner of certain shares of stock in the defendant corporation, and that he had made application to the officers of the company for permission to examine the books of the company, with a view to finding out the facts about the business of the organization, for the purpose of enlightening himself as to the value of his stock; that a color-able permission had been given him, but that, when he .attempted to really make use of it by taking some notes of the…