GAVIN v. PURDY


335 Mass. 236 (1957)

139 N.E.2d 397

MARY E. GAVIN vs. ORVILLE S. PURDY & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 7, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph G. Kelly, (Max Kabatznick with him,) for the petitioner.

Arthur M. Gilman, (Joseph A. Greer with him,) for the respondents.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., RONAN, WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, & CUTTER, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

This is an amended petition by a stockholder for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent Purdy, clerk and a director of The Moxie Company (hereinafter called Moxie), a Massachusetts corporation, and also that corporation itself and its transfer agent, Old Colony Trust Company, to permit examination of the list of stockholders and of all books and records of the corporation. The respondents all filed demurrers, varying slightly from one another, which...

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