Legal Opinion
Gavin v. Purdy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 7, 1957PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
This is an amended petition by a stockholder for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent Purdy, clerk and a director of The Moxie Company (hereinafter called Moxie), a Massachusetts corporation, and also that corporation itself and its transfer agent, Old Colony Trust Company, to permit examination of the fist of stockholders and of all books and records of the corporation. The respondents all filed demurrers, varying slightly from one another, which stated in substance (a) that the petition, so far as it deals with certain records, cannot be maintained because an adequate statutory…
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