Blackmer Co. v. Blackmer

Full title: D. F. BLACKMER FURNITURE AND CARPET COMPANY ET AL. v. BLACKMER

Court: Supreme Court of Colorado. In Department

Date published: Apr 10, 1933

21 P.2d 181 (Colo. 1933)

21 P.2d 181

Opinion

No. 13,264.

Decided April 10, 1933.

Action in mandamus. Judgment for plaintiff.

Affirmed. On Application for Supersedeas.

1. CORPORATIONS — Inspection of Books by Stockholder. Stockholder of a corporation has a statutory right to inspect the corporate records.

Error to the District Court of the City and County of Denver, Hon. James C. Starkweather, Judge.

MR. CHARLES E. FRIEND, for plaintiffs in error.

Messrs. VAN CISE ROBINSON, Mr. KENNETH W. ROBINSON, Mr. BENJAMIN E. SWEET, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE BOUCK, sitting for MR. JUSTICE BUTLER, delivered the opinion of the court.

BY writ of mandamus the district court required the plaintiffs in error, a corporation, and its officers, to permit the defendant in error, Mrs. Blackmer, who alleged that she is one of its stockholders, to inspect the corporate records in accordance with the right conferred upon stockholders by statute. A controversy about the title to the stock claimed by Mrs. Blackmer has just been decided in her favor by this court in Blackmer v. Blackmer, 92 Colo. 414, 21 P.2d 180. The lower court was therefore right.

Judgment affirmed.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAMS and MR. JUSTICE MOORE concur.