Brown v. Central Home Trust Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Donges, J.

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the corporate respondent to permit the relator, a stockholder of the corporation, to examine the list of stockholders of the respondent.

The respondent is a banking corporation and the statute, R. S. 17 :4-52, provides:

“The president and cashier or secretary of every bank or trust company shall at all times cause to be kept a true and accurate list of the names of the stockholders of record of the corporation, with the amount of the stock held by each. The list shall at all times during…