warrant of magistrate.] Whenever, from any cause, there is no person authorized to call or preside at a meeting of the stockholders, any justice of the peace [magistrate] of the county where the principal place of business of the corporation is established, may, on written application of three or more of the stockholders, issue a warrant to one of the stockholders directing him to call a meeting of the stockholders, by giving the notice required in other cases; and said justice [magistrate] may in the same warrant direct such stockholder to preside at such meeting until a clerk is chosen and qualified, if there is no other officer present legally authorized to preside thereat.