People ex rel. Richmond v. Pacific Mail Steamship Co.

The relator, a stockholder of the defendant's corporation, having applied for an inspection of the transfer books, and the book or books of the company containing the names of the stockholders, was offered the transfer books and *365two books containing registers of certificates of stock extending back to 1864. The corporation has no stock list, nor do they keep the book which the 13th section ©f their charter, hereafter noticed, requires them to keep. The ■ relator states that to ascertain who hold stock in the company, and the number of shares, would require an examination of every entry in…