People ex rel. Callanan v. Keeseville
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the People of the State of New York and by the relator, Michael J. Callanan, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the St. Lawrence Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Essex on the 8th day of April, 1905, denying the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The relator is a stockholder of the respondent corporation whose officers are the individual respondents.
On the 24th of March, 1905, he received notice of a special meeting of the stockholders called for April eighth following, for the purpose of voting an increase of the capital stock of the corporation from $60,000 to $1,000,000.
Prior to the day appointed for the meeting relator went to the office of the corporation and demanded of the person in charge that *350he be permitted to inspect the stock book of the company. Such permission was refused, the excuse being that the person…
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