However, since a stockholder is given the right to inspect the books of his corporation at a proper time and place and for a proper purpose ( Matter of Steinway, 159 N.Y. 250, 263; People ex rel. Lorge v. Consolidated Nat. Bank, 105 A.D. 409), it would seem that, in principle and in justice, the right should be extended to holders of voting trust certificates, who are the beneficial owners of the stock of the corporation. ( Matter of Morse [ Bank of America], 247 N.Y. 290, 297-299; Gertenbach v. Rodnon, 171 Misc. 302, 304.) True, under the terms of the voting trust agreement, the stockholders contracted away their right to examine the list of holders of the voting trust certificates or the transfer books of the trustees, except with the prior consent of the trustees.