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This is an appeal from an order of court granting a writ of mandate directing defendants, as officers and agents of the Federal Mortgage & Bond Company, a corporation, wherein plaintiff was a stockholder, to permit him to inspect certain corporate records, consisting of a list of the names and addresses of defendants’ stockholders.

It appears “that, among other records kept by said corporation showing their business transactions, is a record showing the list and addresses of the stockholders of said corporation, and which list and addresses of stockholders is now and was at the times hereinafter complained of, in the care, custody, and control of said secretary and assistant secretary, or a person acting directly for and under the direction of said secretary and assistant secretary,” which list, as shown by the return of defendants to the alternative writ, “the board of directors of said corporation have caused to be compiled for their own convenience, . . . and which is not a record of said corporation, and which is not required to be kept by law or by the by-laws of said corporation.” It is admitted that defendants refuse to permit plaintiff to inspect this list of names and…