Pratt v. Dunham

A petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant as clerk of the American Investment Securities Company to permit the petitioner to inspect the records and stock book of the company and copy such parts as might pertain to his interests. An alternative writ was issued, and from the return thereon, it appears that the reason for refusing the petitioner the right to inspect the records, and the ground urged for which a peremptory writ should be refused, was that the petitioner is not a person interested within the meaning of sec. 22, chap. 51 R. S., as construed in Day v. Booth, 123,…