State Ex Rel. Humphrey v. Monida & Yellowstone Stage Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Relator petitioned the district court for Ramsey county for an alternative writ of mandamus directed to defendant corporation, its president and treasurer, to permit relator, a stockholder, to examine its books and accounts. The writ was granted, defendants made return thereto, and the relator demurred to the return.
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Relator petitioned the district court for Ramsey county for an alternative writ of mandamus directed to defendant corporation, its president and treasurer, to permit relator, a stockholder, to examine its books and accounts. The writ was granted, defendants made return thereto, and the relator demurred to the return. The case was tried before Olin B. Lewis, «L, who ordered that a peremptory writ issue. .Defendants’ motion for judgment in their favo'r or for a new trial-, was denied. From the order denying their motion, they appealed. The request to inspect books, for refusal of which the…
1Opinion of the Court
1 Reported in 124 N.W. 971, 125 N.W. 676.
[Note] For right of stockholder to inspect books of corporation, see notes in 45 L.R.A. 446, and 20 L.R.A. (N.S.) 185. The relator, a stockholder in appellant company, claiming to have been refused the privilege of examining the books of the corporation, petitioned the district court for a peremptory writ of mandamus to enforce his demand. The answer to the petition and alternative writ alleged that the information desired was not for any proper use of relator as a stockholder; that the relator and one of his attorneys, Mr. Albin, had entered into a…
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