Case Name: HOLLISTER v. DE FOREST WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1905-06-22
Citations: 94 N.Y.S. 504
Docket Number: 
Parties: HOLLISTER v. DE FOREST WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 94
Pages: 504–505

Head Matter:
HOLLISTER v. DE FOREST WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
June 22, 1905.)
Corporations—Rights of Stockholders—Inspection of Transfer Book-Denial—Actions for Penalty.
A recovery cannot be sustained under Stock Corporation Law, Laws 1892, p. 1840, c. 688, § 58—requiring transfer agents of foreign corporations to exhibit the transfer book to any stockholder on demand, and. prescribing a penalty for failure to do so—in the absence of evidence that the corporation is a stock corporation, and not a moneyed or railroad corporation, and that. it has an office for the transaction of business or a transfer agent in the state, and that plaintiff is a stockholder.
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Second District.
Action by T. Lloyd Hollister against the De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Reversed.
Argued before SCOTT, P. J., and MacLEAN and DUGRO, JJ. .
Francis X. Butler, for appellant.
T. Lloyd Hollister, in pro. per.

Opinion:
DUGRO, J.
Plaintiff failed to show a cause of action, among other things, in that he failed to prove by competent evidence that the defendant was a stock corporation, and had an office for the transaction of business or a transfer agent in this state;, that it was not a moneyed or railroad corporation; and that he was a stockholder.
The judgment must therefore be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.
SCOTT, P. J., concurs.