Doggett v. North American Life Insurance Co. of Chicago

Appellee, Doggett, for some years owner of a substantial amount of stock in the appellant North American Life Insurance Company of Chicago, filed in the superior court of Cook county, against that company and its president and secretary, a petition for writ of mandamus to compel them to permit him to inspect and examine the list of stockholders. The petition sets out that his purpose in so doing was to get a list of the stockholders that he might confer with them for the purpose of endeavoring to seek the election, on the board of directors, of one outside the present management. He alleged…