People ex rel. Stobo v. Eadie
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, New York county. Application by Alice Stobo for peremptory mandamus to compel the Globe Eire Insurance Company and James S. Eadie, its president, to allow her to inspect its transfer book. From an order granting the writ, the company and its president, Eadie, appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
From the order that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue out of this court, directed to appellants, Eadie, as president, and the Globe Fire Insurance Company, commanding them to permit the relator, Alice Stobo, or James J. Allen, her attorney, to examine and inspect the transfer book of the company, or such book kept by it as contains the names of the stockholders, this appeal is taken. The application was made upon affidavits in which it was stated that the Globe Fire Insurance Company was a domestic corporation; that Alice Stobo, the relator, held in certificates 75 shares of the capital…
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