Hartman

The petitioners herein pray a writ of supersedeas to restrain the Superior Court of Los Angeles County from enforcing a decree directing the Bandini Petroleum Company to permit respondent Hartman to inspect and make notes from its corporate books and records, and from enforcing an order to show cause why petitioners should not be held in contempt of court for refusing to comply with such decree.

It is recited in the petition, and is not denied, that Hartman filed in said Superior Court an action wherein it appeared that he owned six shares of stock of the petitioning corporation, which he had purchased for six dollars, and that as such stockholder he demanded, and after trial was granted, permission to inspect the corporate records. The trial was had on November 3, 1927, and on that date the trial court announced judgment for the plaintiff, at which time the petitioners’ counsel stated that the defendants intended to appeal, and requested that the amount of undertaking on appeal and to stay execution be fixed. The court thereupon, without objection of the plaintiff’s counsel, fixed the amount of undertaking in the sum of one thousand dollars. On February 23, 1928, findings of…