Affirming. The question on this appeal is whether a minority stockholder is entitled to inspect correspondence concerning the business affairs of the corporation, between its non-resident president and its vice president and active manager, and on file in the latter's office. The question arises in the following way: Plaintiff, H.J. Scheirich, a stockholder in the Otis-Hidden Company, asked a mandatory injunction against the company and its vice president, R.E. Moody, requiring them to permit...
For $60.00, and the further consideration of the benefit to be derived by the grantor through the extension of the Knoxville branch of the L. N.R.R. Co., through Laurel county, J.G. Moore and wife conveyed to the railroad company an unconditional right of way through their property. After constructing, and for a number of years operating, a line of railroad over said right of way the company abandoned the same. In February, 1912, condemnation proceedings were instituted against all the owners...
M.J. Ealey died intestate January 21, 1918, a resident of Greenup county. March 5th, at a special term of the county court the Equitable Trust Company of Dover, Mason county, Ky., was appointed administrator of the estate and executed bond as such. March 7th, a statement was filed by the widow of decedent, waiving her right to act as administratrix and requesting the court that her father be appointed in her stead, and this was done at a special term of the court on this date. The Greenup...
The purpose of this suit which was brought in July, 1919, by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, was to make the American Railway Express Company liable for certain judgments amounting in round numbers to $4,000.00 obtained by the Commonwealth against the Adams Express Company in the Harlan circuit court. The lower court gave judgment for the amount asked against the American Railway Express Company, and to have a reversal of that judgment it prosecutes this appeal. *Page 637 There is no question...
