Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Watkins v. North American Land & Timber Co.

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided November 15, 1901No. 14,087PublishedCited by 28 opinions

APPEAL from the Fifteenth, Judicial District, Parish of Calcásieu, —Miller, J.

1Opinion of the Court

Statement op the Case.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Monroe, J.

The relator, claiming as a stockholder, seeks to enforce, by mandamus, his right to inspect the books of the defendant corporation. To the proceeding, originally filed, an exception was interposed to the effect that it was directed against the manager of the company, alone, and that there had been no prayer for citation and no citation of the company, and, upon appeal to this court, the exception was maintained, and the case remanded for “amendment of the application * * * and in order that legal service may” (might) “be…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Home Ins. Co. v. MorseSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
  2. McKinnon v. . MorrisonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1889
  3. North State Copper & Gold Mining Co. v. FieldCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1885
  4. Pope v. Terre Haute Car & Manufacturing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1881
  5. Johnston v. Trade InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882

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3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. ChattersSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
  2. Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Clarendon Boat Oar Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1922
  3. State v. JoubertNebraska Supreme Court · 1994
  4. Kelly v. ThomasSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
  5. Backus v. FinkelsteinDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 1927

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